In 1841, after acquiring land in this location (São Miguel do Turvo), Lieutenant Urias Emídio Nogueira de Barros arrived. Originally from Baependi, Minas Gerais, and a resident of Casa Branca-SP, where he held several public offices, it was on this land—called Fazenda Velha—that he became a pioneer. It is said that during one of his journeys, his daughter Iria, who had remained in Casa Branca, showed everyone in the house all the gold her father had obtained in his searches. He opened a trail to the coast, passing through Justinada (the place where the enslaved man Justino stayed), Tapiraí, Juquiá, among other places. Unfortunately, he lost one of his sons to the waters of the Ouro Fino River and added the name Galvão to his son José’s name as a tribute to the friar, who is now canonized. He passed away in 1881. Although there was already a chapel in the small settlement, the construction of the chapel that went down in history was the responsibility of Maximina Nogueira Terra, the lieutenant’s seventh daughter. Already a widow, the location, which had been elevated to the category of Parish in 1877, gained a chapel in honor of Maximina’s husband—Miguel dos Santos Terra—and our guardian angel—Saint Michael the Archangel—on land donated by Teresa Augusta, her youngest sister, on April 2, 1884, which led to São Miguel Arcanjo becoming a parish in 1886. On April 1, 1889, political-administrative emancipation occurred, and São Miguel Arcanjo became a municipality; on October 30 of the same year, the City Council was established.