On June 7, 1923, the then Secretariat of Agriculture and Livestock "was assigned control of the land that remained from the former Hacienda of Chapingo") and annexes, in Texcoco, state of Mexico, with a surface area of ​​559.38 hectares, divided into three separate fractions.

The purpose of this presidential agreement was that said property be used for the facilities of the National School of Agriculture, which today continues to house the beautiful facilities of the Chapingo Autonomous University. In another fraction of the same property, a housing area was formed by the workers of the National School of Agriculture, since then called Pueblo Cooperativo*.

The construction of this town was carried out according to a colony model based on cooperativism (taken, in turn, from a Soviet colony model). Diego Rivera, who had an important presence in Chapingo precisely in these years, actively participated in this process. The town fountain, located in the gazebo, as well as all its ornaments made of tiles, were designed by the muralist, who always had an important interest in architecture.

Diego Rivera painted famous murals in the rectory building of the UACH, two of these speak clearly of the Cooperative Town, one of them is named “Distribution of the lands in the Cooperative Town”, in it he painted the plans of the town, with a pyramidal outline, as well as the scene in which the ENA workers were benefited with the delivery of these lands. In another mural we see the representation of the incipient town, already laid out, in which the gazebo with its fountain and three small houses stand out, whose model still persists in two of the oldest buildings in the town.

This town was declared the first Cooperative Town of the Mexican Republic") and observed a particular regulation of which certain fragments are still preserved reflected in one of its monuments, which by the way was scratched in certain areas, by the same inhabitants, as a result of the alienation of the town's assets. It experienced the presence of León Trotsky, which was documented on a simple plaque located in the gazebo and which was completely scratched.

On May 7, 1991, various real estate properties, including the Cooperative Village, were withdrawn from the Service of the Ministry of Agriculture and Hydraulic Resources. As a result of this presidential decree, the sale of the town's houses in favor of their occupants begins to be managed, so that they continue to use them as housing.

The sale of these properties, carried out in 1993, resulted in the modification of the original appearance of the town that until then had been preserved intact, as well as the damage to its monuments. Currently the Municipality of Texcoco is carrying out restoration work on some of its historical monuments.