XIX Century

1803 Temozon was recorded as a cattle raising Hacienda by Bishop Pedro Augustin Estevez y Ugarte, of Yucatan, in his pastoral travelling report.

1810 Temozon Sur, now owned by Doña Micaela Montero had the three basic necessities to become a successful mixed Hacienda. During this time having livestock and corn, they increased production and intensified the activities carried out by the estancias and produced corn on a greater scale than they had done previously.

The three necessities were as follows: extensive land for the cattle to use, sufficient natural water resources on the property (sink holes) and lastly a local indigenous population large enough to work the land. In those days the Hacienda had 20 horses and 800 head of cattle.

1851 The extraordinary demand for hard fibers in the U.S. twine industry paved the way in this period (1880-1920). Livestock and corn haciendas like Temozon Sur, now owned by Don Jose Nicolas Lara and after him by his widow Dominga Lara, were transformed into sisal factories. This caused the mixed production of the Hacienda to be reduced to the minimum activities, basically to maintain the Haciendas self sufficiency. The main activity was now one single product: sisal or as they call it in Mexico: Henequen.

1855 The name Temozon is a hybrid term consisting of a Mayan and a Spanish word: te which means in Mayan this is the place and the Spanish word mozon which means whirlwind. In a report written in this year by a government promoter D. Jose Maria Peon y Cano about the Mayan language it states: the Indians say t-mozon to a whirlwind and therefore the name place of the whirlwind.

1869 The Hacienda was purchased by Mr. Jose Rendon Peniche, one of the pioneers of the railroads in the Yucatan Peninsula.

1873 In this year Temozon Sur was purchased by a young lawyer called Carlos Peon Manchado. The Peon Family was one of the most important "hacendados" families in the peninsula, his father Felipe Peon Maldonado was owner of 13 haciendas when he died in 1876. Carlos Peon Machado also stood out in the Yucatecan history as an important politician (governor of Yucatan 1893-97), banker and businessmen. Before exporting the fiber, it had to be extracted from the henequen leaves ("pencas"). This was done by special steam machines known as "strippers". The first 2 strippers were set up by Carlos Peon in the mid 1870s. Temozón yielded 34 kg of fiber per 1000 henequen leaves.

1885 The Hacienda Temozon was connected to the telegraph network and later it also had a telephone line.