The first inhabitant of the territory was Gabriel de Souza, which got in the 1860 of the Imperial Government heading of "Sir of the Field of Cinnamon".
The name of the city provém of a tree, vulgarly called Cinnamon, then located not far of the place where it is currently the central square of the city, the Square Corrêa João, this caneleira served of point of meeting and inn of tropeiros.
The Colonel Corrêa João Blacksmith Da Silva was the tamer of the town, constructed to a railroad, initiating the workmanship for 1913 return being this concluded in 1925, binding to Cinnamon the Taquara. In 1913, the "Forest Company Riograndense" was created, this Company bought pines and lands in the roundnesses of the Snail. For exploration of these pines five had been installed would saw. Mr. Helmut Schmitt was contracted by this Company, practical in location of roads and installations of you would saw, and for account of the Forest Company, this ordered to construct diverse roads, since the locality of the Snail until the Great Bathed one, Esteinho, Horseshoe, Tubiana, etc.
In 02 of March of 1926, Cinnamon was catalogued by the Municipal Law nº 302 as sixth district of Taquara. The emancipacionista movement took greater countenance from 1942. In 28 of December of 1944, by the State Law nº 717, was created the city of Cinnamon, having been installed the 01 of January of 1945, being nominated as first mayor Sr. Nelson Schneider.
Cinnamon was a small town, congregating families of farmers from above of the Mountain range, immigrants German and Italians and its descendants. It had a beginning of activities in the Industry, with the implantation of you would saw. Cinnamon was obligator ticket for the cities from above of the Mountain range with the capital of the State. They passed for Cinnamon, tropeiros leading cattle, cheese and leather with destination the Parobé, Taquara, Are Leopoldo and Porto Alegre. They went up the Mountain range, the pedlars to place its products in the farms from above of the Mountain range. It was the beginning of the tourist movement in Cinnamon.
With the industrialization of the wood, the first hotels in the locality appear of Snail, that attract clientele of the Capital of the State. With the industrial growth the commerce blossoms, and as consequence the movement of people. It had necessity of creation of pensions and hotels (called in that time of "Houses of Grass") to take care of the demand.
The construction of the Railway Line that bound to Cinnamon the Porto Alegre was the determinative factor so that Cinnamon if constituted at the time in the biggest center of tourism of the State. In that time, the tourist movement was called "summering". The families came mainly of Porto Alegre and remained in one definitive hotel for periods of one the three months. To take care of this demand, the Great Hotel, Hotel Beautiful Sight, Hotel Central and Palace had appeared Hotel.
In 1944, a Casino in Cinnamon, provisory building functions. With the functioning of the game tourists of great centers of the country are attracted for Cinnamon, as São Paulo and Rio De Janeiro, and of the exterior, Uruguay and Argentina. The hotels keep permanent capacity. It has fortalecimento of the commerce.
The city is emancipated, and the municipal controllers come back its concerns to equip the city with a tourist structure to receive the visitors. The events and festividades appear to give to the tourist biggest option and leisure during its "summering".
During 1945, the Federal Government proíbe the game in Brazil, what it meant a fatal blow for the city of Cinnamon, that had its tourist structure in function of the game. The fact of the city to be located in a mountain range area lindíssima, encircled of pines, bushes and parks, that had survived to the deforestation, became the tourism the natural trend of Cinnamon. It was added, still, to this scene the spectacle of the snow, that attracts people of the most diverse places of this tropical Brazil. The low temperatures stimulated that the fireplaces and stoves the firewood of the houses remained lighted, impregnating air with diverse aromas wooden, firewoods of pine, eucalipto, and the proper Cinnamon... But they were not only the natural beauties and the climate the factors of seduction for the people. The city offered and still it offers to the good tourists hotels, restaurants, churrascarias and the famous colonial coffees, with biscuits waffles, schmiers, apfelstrudell and in the winter... time for the delicious hot chocolate and liquors caretakers. The population of Cinnamon always had a concern in its cultural development. Music, the gastronomia, the theater had been qualifications developed in some generations of immigrants, who lived deeply its traditions in different forms of communication. These were the européias inheritances of the City. Its differential in the scene of Brazil. E thus, Cinnamon came exerting great allure on its visitors, becoming one of the most important cities in the tourist and cultural context of the Region of the Hortênsias. The industry of the Tourism is fascinating, but, also, sufficiently competitive. Cinnamon trod a long way to arrive until here. E already has a victorious history in its half century of life. In the year of 1999, the tourism in the region only grew 60%, while that in Brazil as a whole, the increment was of only 10%. The city obtained to disconcentrate the flow - previously centered in the winter - and today already has a great percentage of visitors during the December month, in function of the event Dream of Christmas and the Season of Summer. A city that redescobriu its route. A community where the citizens had used its talent and spirit of union to grow and together to create a quality of uneven life in our country.
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