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| | General Roca: History of the City and Legends from the area |
 | | At the request of the ministry of War and Marine, Gral Julio Argentino Roca, lieutenant colonel Lorenzo Vinter, chief of Regimiento 5ª de Caballería, settled in the spot called Fisque Menuco on the 1st September 1879, a fort that received the name Fuerte General Roca. |
 | | At first it was built in a place abandoned by the flood, but in 1931, the present train station was built, and the previous one was left for cargo. |
 | | The outstanding cultural activity of General Roca started with the foundation of the public library Biblioteca Popular Julio A. Roca in 1936, Colegio Nacional de Enseñanza Srecundaria in 1942, and the regional museum Lorenzo Vintter in 1949. |
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