The issue of marine Italian , originally from Genoa , Juan Bautista Pastene Soimana discovered in September 1544 Conception Bay, site of Tom�. ".
According Asta-Buruaga took until 1835 was only a desert landscape temporarily occupied by fishermen, who began to fill after the year 1842 , when they settled the flour mills that took advantage of its numerous water streams to grind grain. The carts loaded with wheat came from Rafael , Coelemu and Chill�n and paid with a "voucher Tome". Simultaneously develop industries tannery , thesoap and cooperage .
In 1850 , by decree of July 13, I took happens to be the capital of the " Department of Coelemu ". Thus, establishing the Municipality of Tome, administered locally Coelemu department.
In 1858 , by Act of August 31, was declared " major port ".
In 1866 , on the occasion of the war between Chile and Spain, the Spanish frigates " Resolution "and" Numancia "bombard the port of Tome, the chief of his time in the Bay of Concepci�n. Damage mark the end of the milling industry, which exported flour to the West Coast of the United States, but that was already in decline.
Entry to the factory workers cloths Sheep Tome Bellavista , probably around the years 1920 or 1930.
A few months earlier, in 1865 , he founded the Textile Factory American Bellavista by William Gibson Delano Fergunson, mining entrepreneur and miller, who invested the money from the sale of flour to the United States to acquire 25 looms in June would be the beginning of a story textiles that would arise this community and that would lead to a golden age in the mid-twentieth century, with textile mills Bellavista Cloths, Wipes Sheep Society (also known as "National Cloths Factory") and American Italo Cloths Factory .
In 1885 , Dec. 26, Tom� receives the title of " city ". In 1891 , with the Law of Independent Commune , promulgate the Decree of Creation of Municipalities , on December 22, 1891, in establishing
