There are many beauties in Campo Grande that would make great movie sets. The José Antônio Pereira Museum is one of them: with its green grass, centennial trees and the most diverse plants of our biome adorning the old Pereiras' house, on the outskirts of Guaicurus Avenue, many tourists are enchanted by the place.
It tells the story of the first pioneers of Campo Grande, brave miners who, attracted by the promises of prosperity to the west, came in a caravan in the mid-nineteenth century. When they passed through the region of today's "morena" city, around the Bálsamo stream, they decided to settle here.
José Antônio Pereira then brought his family in 1875 and another caravan, they set up their ground-floor residence, walls with vines and started the story.
The house became the farmhouse that covered a large part of the city and was named Bálsamo Farm, in honor of the river with the same name.
Contrary to popular belief, when they arrived, the region was already inhabited by some quilombola and indigenous communities, but the organization of the land as a city began with the arrival of the Pereiras.
José Antônio Pereira's granddaughter, after his death and that of his son, Luiz Antônio Pereira, decided to donate the house to the cultural and tourist heritage of the city and, today, it is a mandatory stop for tourists and country people, proud of its history.
The place is a landmark of one of the first houses in Campo Grande, which, this past August, turned 123 years old!
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