“We were always used to small towns. My husband was offered a job at the mill and they lent us this house, the same one for 31 years. We feel it as our own. It’s not because we don’t like living here, but my husband is 72 years old and he’s tired, besides, our children have already taken other directions. Many times I think about what my life will be like away from Estela, because I got used to it and I can’t stand the noise,” he declared. Maria Romero to local media. The woman with her husband Jorge Fajardoare the last inhabitants of the Buenos Aires town of Wake.
The story of Estela, located in the party of Puanis that of several towns that were forgotten with the closure of the railways in the Buenos Aires Provinces. This town only had two inhabitants, who made the decision to leave and the area will soon become a ghost town.
Located in the southwest of the Province of Buenos Aires, the population grew with the activity of the General Roca Railway and advanced thanks to agricultural-livestock activity. According to records, in its heyday, it had a police station, a school, a warehouse, a flour factory and a stable population of 90 inhabitants.
But in the last decades, Estela decreased notoriously. In the 2001 census, it was established that 25 people lived in the place and in the 2010 census, only Jorge Fajardo and Maria Celia Romero, a married couple who settled in with their two children, who were 12 and 6 years old at the time. Thus, the Buenos Aires town will become one of the many uninhabited towns in the interior that, after enjoying progress and prosperity, will remain in the memory of those who once lived there.
“The freight train passed, there were people in the streets and the mill was working. I had set up a store that worked well, you couldn’t see the misery that people suffer today. The only native inhabitant of Estela also lived, who has already passed away. Be careful, today some people who lament how the railway has been dismantled usually visit this point ”, concluded María Romero.
Like other Buenos Aires sites, such as The thoughtlocated in the party of Colonel Pringles, Estela will have an uncertain future. After the exodus of the couple, the town will wait for the arrival of new inhabitants, travelers or lovers of abandoned sites.
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