During the colonial period, the estate is a basic social and economic unit where not only crops and livestock for feeding a growing population, represents the power of families living there, structures a patriarchal society and gives rise to a rural world very characteristic of 17th and 18th centuries. These estates were founded in unoccupied lands or lands that colonists took away from native people and were given in retribution to those people who served o helped during the Conquest.

Then in 1599, the Royal Governor of Chile, Pedro Vizcarra, granted as a reward the lands of Chacabuco to Pedro de la Barrera. Before he died, he bequeathed those lands to Antonio Martínez Vergara, alguacil mayor (who oversaw local law enforcement) of the Cabildo of Santiago, who in turn left those lands to the Jesuits, who took ownership of the lands in 1696 with the idea of supplying food to the school they had in San Pablo street in Santiago.

The 1730 earthquake caused serious damages in the buildings erected in the estate, houses and the chapel; but Jesuits rebuilt them almost immediately. Nevertheless, in 1767, Jesuit Order was expelled from the domains of the King of Spain (in 1759, they were banned from Portugal, and in 1762, from France), so they were forced to leave the estate, which would be auctioned in 1771.

It should be mentioned that, after the Battle of Chacabuco in 1817, the estate had been used as lodging for the patriots.

Since 1823, its new owner would be Eulogio Solar, grandfather of Juanita Fernández Solar (later known as Saint Teresa of the Andes), who would spend long seasons in the estate, as indicated by records in her diary and letters, marked by her grandfather’s lessons, who will died in 1907. Therefore, Juanita’s mother would inherit the estate. In 1917, due to a poor management of businesses by Juanita’s father, Chacabuco estate is sold.

Later, the estate was transferred to saltpeter businessman Francisco Petrinovic, who in 1929 has restructured his commercial firm under the name “Francisco Petrinovic y Cía.”, involving a wide range of businesses, such as “Hacienda de Chacabuco,” a Chilean olive oil maker, packer and exporter.

Nowadays, the estate is still private property. However, the church every Sunday holds the Holy Mass at midday and it is opened to the Chacabuco community.