In present day Tlalcosahua, the temple (church) is dedicated to San Diego de Alcala; with it's rustic architecture, it represents one of the ancient buildings of its kind in the municipality; it's stones are simply carved and the ancient buildings seems to withstand (the ravages of time). Over the years the townspeople have performed different levels of conservation and maintenance work to both the exterior and interior, and sometimes modifications of dimensions so as to alter or increase space.
With little concern for the historical value of the building, neccessary repairs of various kinds were made over the years; neverthless, the appearance of the exterior of the building readily tells of its early construction, the building construction actually began in the year 1695.
On the south side of the bipistery, on the wall above the doctor's lintel, one can read the following: " The Year of 171,"that number is obviously missing a digit, but undoubtedly reffering to the second decade of the 18th Century, even though the fourth digit is "erased" because of erosion. In 1720 the builders carved ornamentation on the stone located on the front exterior, with a tower made of adobe finished in 1835.
During the next year (1836) the circular of the Atrio-Panteon (Vestibule-Cemetary) was put on the west side principal door, naming as Godfather of the Ceremony, Mister Joaquin Campa.
The book of Baptism No. 1, came forth in the year 1868.
The vestibule was fashioned in what was the style of the time and, as to were able to observe, with niches in the stone that in the interior contained scenes of the Passion of Christ, with the prayers of the stations of the cross. Today there is one remaining; in it and you can read the following: " Established February 27, 1863."
Like the church vestibules of the antiquity, this one served as a cemetary and shrine, but not being used as a cemetary since the last decade of the 19th Century; within are buried two priests, Padre Silva and Padre Alba.
The south buttress of the sacristy was constructed in March 19,1934.
Because there was not a significant number of inhabitants in some of the towns in the state, including the town of Tlalcosahua, as defined in the Article 3ro (third) of the Constitution of the State of Jalisco, dated May 3, 1872, the Governor of the State of Jalisco, Lawyer Ignacio Luis Vallarta, issued a decree in which he eliminated the municipaliity status of these towns, Tlalcosahua included, the latter assigned to the jurisdiction of the town of Huejucar.
Tlalcosahua, prior to the redistribution of parcels of land following the extinction of the haciendas, was always surrounded by them; to the north they had the haciendas of El Cuidado and Vivoras owned by Sanchez Castellanos, and also the hacienda of the Llamas; to the west was El Cacalote (hacienda named "The Crow") of the family Del Hoyo; and the southeast Los Cardos and El Laurel, as well as the haciendas of the Bishop of Alba and the brothers Pascuala and Donato de Alba, and the family Villalpando, respectively.
In the year 1921, Don Benigno Castillo (see editors note, below) ask of the Governor of the State of Jalisco to redistribute to the inhabitants of Tlalcosahua the lands that have been taken, since they were properties of their ancestors, and to form an ejido (commons), recognizing property rights of ancestors and descendants as related to land ownership both before and after the Conquest; the Tlalcosahuans recognized their boundaries to the north to what today is the church of Cuidado, to the south of Huacasco, to the east of the summit of the hill, and to the west El Cacalote.
(Editors note: This gentleman, Don Benigno Castillo, is presently (1993) living in Tlalcosahua, and he was compadre to the grandfather of Juan Vazquez Castillo, currently living in Merced, California.
The government did not return all the lands to the people at the tieme , but granted an endowment of the land, forming the common (ejido), in 1927.
In 1933 this same person (Don Benigno Castillo) negotiated, before the Government of the State, that Tlalcosahua would establish an office of Civil Registration and determined the number of inhabiitans which the town had. The position was heard by the faculty of Colotlan, Jalisco ( a town short distance to the south of Huejucar and Tlalcosahua), which authorized the books in regards to the Civil Registration, the function starting in 1934, and making the first Municipal Commissioner(s) Don Antonio Ramirez and Esteban Ramirez. Automatically that year they elevated (to the status of "official") the Municipal Delegation.
No official documents of the Delegation exists prior to that date (1934), the older records having been destroyed in a fire.
The Urban School No. 706 of the State was established in the year 1949.
The agency "B" of the Postal Service was put into service May 22,1954.
Electricity (service to the town) came in 1970.
In 1971 the office building of the Municipal Delegation was reconstructed.
In the period of 1971 to 1973 the baño Garrapaticida ( bath for dipping animals for ticks) was constructed.
1974 saw the construction for, and the start of services of, the Health Center (Centro de Salud).
In 1975 was the inaguration of the Potable Water System which currently has the capacity of 285 tomas.
In 1979 the professor Federico Leaños and Antonio Flores formed the musical group "Tlalcosahua", now active.
In 1979, with the help of moral and farsighted Manuel Haro Mota who headed a group of laborers who donated their services, 5 kilometers of roadway were paved up to the main Colotlan-Huejucar road, and the entrance to El Toril (old hacienda) they also repaired a bridge for the passage of automobiles over the Jerez river.
1n 1980 the House of Culture (Casa de Cultura) was installed in Tlalcosahua.
In 1985 two classsrooms were constructed for the Secondary School "Cristobal Colon"
In 1986 a factory was built where doors and windows are now manufactured. In the same year a drainage system was installed and put into service.
On the initiative of the far-sighted Eliseo Diaz, and with the cooperation of the town of Tlalcosahua, around the beginnig of 1987, they tore down the tower of adobe of the steeple and they reconstructed it of stone and cement. WIth the same resources, this priest undertook the construction of two roofed rest areas on both sides of the temple, very useful for waiting in time of rain; of equal utility he reconstructedd the circle of the courtyard and personally placed the tiles of stone on the floor in three approaches to the temple.
In 1988 the municipal government acquired, by purchase, a plot of land for the sports field (cancha deportiva).
On January 3, 1988, appeared the first issue of the weekley printed publication "Cambio" Published by Eliseo Diaz.
This publicatioin is distributed by clothing stores, service stations and automobile mechanic shops, sellers of utensils for work in the fields and sellers of ice cream.
Within his delegatioin jurisdiction will be found Cienega Grande, El Rincon del Salto, El Alamo, El Salto, El Ingles, Rancho Nuevo, La Joya, La Purisima, and La Cofradia, as well as the barrios of San Cayetano, El Toril, Cieneguita, and San Felipe.
Your (Tlalcosahua's) inhabitants who posed pronounced characteristics of the bronze race, performed work as carpenters, as fabricators of soyate sombreros, as seasonal agriculture workers, and livestock.
On your lands are abundances of poplar trees, orange trees, lemon trees, ochate, cactus, mezquites, huizaches and maguey.
