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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY — PUBLICATION NO. 1 1 



Names of heroes of the Reform period and the French 

 Intervention 1854-67 



I Juan ALVAREZ (TACON); hero from Guerrero of 



1811-21 revolution, Plan de Ayutla 1854-55, president 

 1855, fought against French 1862-67; 1905-16, and 

 still used occasionally. 



III Jos6 Maria ARTEAGA; liberal general from Mex- 

 ico shot in Uruapan 1865; 1904-. 



IV Felipe BERRIOZABAL (GALEANA in part) ; liberal 



general 1850's; 1901-. 



II Ignacio COMONFORT (OLIVO and CUERNO); 



liberal general from Puebla in Wars of Reform, 

 president 1855-58, fought French 1862-63; 1921-. 



II and III RAMON CORONA (CALVARIO, n. Na- 



cional, Vasco de Quiroga) ; liberal general and 

 leader against the French, from Jalisco; 1901-. 

 I DEGOLLADO; named for Santos Degollado or his 

 brother Mariano Degollado, both of whom were 

 liberal associates of Ocampo and often visited Quir- 

 oga; 1863-. 



III Manuel DOBLADO (Campana, Patriota, w. Pan- 

 te6n) ; liberal leader from Guanajuato; 1901-. 



I ITURBIDE (CALLE NUEVA and JIMENEZ); 



named for either Colonel Andr6s Iturbide, a cavalry 

 officer from Michoacdn who was killed in 1858, or 

 from another Michoacdn liberal and associate of 

 Ocampo who frequently visited Quiroga^Manuel 

 Iturbide Mayor; 1863-. 



II GONZALEZ ORTEGA (LA ALCANTARILLA, EL 



AGUACATE); defender of Puebla against the 

 French 1863; 1902-. 



III and IV BENITO JUAREZ (PUEBLO NUEVO, 

 e. Zaragoza) ; liberal judge, minister, and president 

 1855-72; 1901-. 



III Miguel LERDO DE TEJADA; minister and justice 

 who published the so-called Ley Lerdo in 1856; 1863-. 



II Melchor OCAMPO; great liberal governor 1846-52 

 after whom the State is named Michoacdn de 

 Ocampo, and author with Judrez of the Ley Lerdo; 

 ca. 1852-. 



IV Manuel Garcia PUEBLITA; military commander of 



Michoacdn 1864-65, who defeated French in Quiroga 



1865; 1902-. 

 IV Carlos SALAZAR ; liberal general from Tamaulipas shot 



in Uruapan 1865; 1901-. 

 II and III Plazuela de VALLE; individual referred to is 



uncertain; 1879-. 



I and II Ignacio ZARAGOZA (CALLE REAL; formerly 



all of Judrez also); Mexican general who won the 

 first battle of Puebla from the French May 5, 1862; 

 1863-. 



II Plaza de LA CONSTITUCION (PLAZA VIEJA, 



Plaza de los Republicanos, Plaza Nacional); the great 



liberal Constitution of 1857; 1868-. 

 IV Plaza de LOS MARTIRES; Mexican prisoners of war 



shot in Quiroga 1866; ca. 1867-. 

 I REFORMA (formerly all of NEGRETE, LA LLAVEl 



includes LA CORONA, PLAZA DE TOROS); the 



LEYES DE LA REFORMA published by Judrez in 



1859; 1863-. 



A number of other names have been apphed to 

 the streets of Quiroga, but this was chiefly on 

 paper. About 1910 and until the revolution one 

 street was named after Governor Aristides 

 Mercado, but with the possible exception of 

 Governor Jimenez there were no other Quiroga 

 streets nam.ed after Porfirio Diaz and his hench- 

 men. A new slate of names was prepared about 

 1921-23, but of the new names (such as Cuauh- 

 temoc, Vasco de Quiroga, Coldn, Altamirano, 

 Bustamante, Escobedo, and Melgar) the memory 

 of only a few has been retained. In 1943 there 

 was proposed to the ayuntamiento the renaming 

 of some of the streets after heroes of the Madero 

 revolution (among the names proposed were 

 Lazaro Cardenas, Venustiano Carranza, and 

 Francisco I. Madero), but none of these names 

 was ever approved. In 1946 we proposed some 

 names for lanes and streets currently without 

 names, and these were entered by the ayunta- 

 miento on the map of Quiroga which we had 

 prepared, copies of which were presented to 

 the ayuntamiento, the tax collector, and the post- 

 master. The names proposed were those of 

 individuals connected with the history of Quh'Oga 

 or the entire Patzcuaro Basin (Riva Palacio, 

 Francisco de Paula Placencia, Vicente Elizarraras, 

 Trinidad Valdes, Antonio Torres, Calzontzin, 

 and Tariacari), but it is still too early to determine 

 if any of these names have "caught on" with the 

 citizens of Quiroga. Recently (since 1937) the 

 local Sinarquistas improved the portion of La 

 Concordia leading to the cemetery and placed a 

 marker naming that portion Los Martires del 

 Sinarquismo (the Martyrs of Sinarchism). 



The inliabitants, from colonial times to the 

 present, have tended to name the streets upon 

 which they live after salient objects or notable 

 local events. Names of large or unique trees 

 and shrubs are common (Aguacate, Chirinioyo, 

 Jazmin, Mesquite, Olivo, etc.) although in most 

 instances these trees have long since disappeared. 

 Such names as AJcantarillas, Plaza de Gallos, 

 Plaza de Toros, Estaci6n Vieja, Fabrica, Muelle, 

 Jardin, and Huerta, recall in many instances 

 establishments which do not now exist, but they 

 enable us to reconstruct the social and economic 

 history of the commimity. The two streets 

 named after gudds, or occupations, imply a con- 

 centration in special areas of the bakers and black- 

 smiths, but we are not certain of their location 



