XIX Century

1810 From the beginning of this century, the building became known as "Casa Guerrero" due to the family name of the owners. The first member of the family who became owner of the house was D. Eligio Guerrero Quero. He was an accountant, married to Rosario Méndez Estrada and they had four children: Eligio, Rosario, Gonzalo y Fernando.

1870 In the beginning of this year D. Eligio established a wholesaler store with the name: "El Bronce", located in the building on the 59th street marked with the number 71. The wholesale business sold mainly products imported from Europe like champagne from the trade house "Les Pommery" in France as well as French, Spanish and Italian wines. They also sold cheeses, overseas groceries and a variety of national products like cocoa, coffee, cinnamon, wines and rum produced in Campeche.

1873 Due to increasing revenues over the years D. Eligio Guerrero decided to use part of the store as a barn for corn, sugar, beans, lentils and salt as well as storeroom for the other merchandise. He was also involved in the exportation of henequen, dyewood and gum. D. Eligio also established the first soap factory in Campeche, located at the end of the building. In the different storerooms of "Casa Guerrero" oak barrels were used to keep the locally produced liquor as well as the wine that was imported from Europe.

1882 Over the years Don Eligio had many employees in different positions working for him. In the records written in this year the following names were mentioned Enrique Puerto, Francisco Puga and Rómulo Canto Heredia. The wholesale business "El Bronce" was the first choice for the country estates which were located on the south side of Campeche to purchase their merchandise, one of its clients was: Hacienda Uayamon.

1885 In the same building as the shop was a public telephone service, this gave the people in Campeche the possibility to communicate with most of the Haciendas located on the south side of Campeche. The person in charge of this "public telephone" was Mr. José Felipe Ek Caballero.