The Municipal Archives of Villasimius keep documents from the second half of the nineteenth-century. They are very important as they witness the changes in the population of Villasimius starting from the first union of families to the reality of a community explained with details through documents regarding the aspects of the social life, as for example the arrival of the first teacher, the elections of the first representatives of the village, the construction of buildings such as the church and the barracks…. The essential passage of this process is the change of the name Carbonara into Villasimius, happened in 1862, witnessed by one of these documents.