 The origins of San José de Gracia go back to the time of the congregation of indigenous Chichimecas who worked in the "hacienda de garabato" but when dying their last benefit was that they could settle in the foothills of the Sierra Fría, in a place that over time would be called "de Martha" ", this between the years 1673 and 1675.In 1928, due to the construction of the President Calles Dam, the municipal seat was suppressed, being decreed again in 1934 and confirmed as a municipality in 1953.The small community was made up of sixteen families and subsisted on hunting, fishing, cutting and carving wood.