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Author of "Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce." Andrés Ramos Mattei, sugar industry historian Said to be "the undisputed authority" on the subject of Puerto Rico's sugar industry. Gladys Esther Tormes González, historian Head archivist and longest-serving archivist at the "Archivo Historico de Ponce".
Marín moved to the city of Ponce during the tumultuous years of the late 1860s, [12] joining Manuel Gregorio Tavárez and Manuel Zeno Gandia. [13]On 21 May 1874, Marín founded his first newspaper "El Avisador." [14] In May 1875 he published his second paper in Ponce, "La Crónica de Ponce", later renamed "La Crónica". [15]
Luis de Quixano is also credited with setting up the first lighting of the city, when he ordered the installation of 16 oil-based lampposts around Plaza Las Delicias in 1864. [5] Upon leaving his mayoral duties in Ponce on 23 June 1865, Quixano y Font became mayor of San German. [6] [7]
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
The first permanent ayuntamiento was established in Ponce while Conde was mayoring the city, by the Provincial Governor Miguel de la Torre. The new ayuntamiento did not meet in a public building, as it is the case now (2019), but instead met at the house of a prominent local citizen, Domingo Arévalo .
Second Edition. 1997. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Universidad de Puerto Rico en Ponce. p. 334. Item 1666. LCCN 92-75480; Ponce. Ordenanzas de policía urbana urbana y rural para la ciudad de Ponce y su termino municipal; aprobadas por el Excmo. Sr. Gobernador General en 24 de febrero de 1888. 2. ed. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Imprenta de Manuel Lopez, 1904 ...
Luis Antonio ("Wito") Morales Crespo [1] (7 January 1928 – 18 June 2011) was a Puerto Rican politician and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1973 to 1976.He was also Senator for the District of Ponce from 1977 to 1980 and president of the Ponce Municipal Assembly from 1989 to 2004 [2] [3] He is recognized as a politician, sportsman, and sports broadcaster.
Cocolía (Spanish for little crab) played the saxhorn with "La Lira Ponceña" orchestra (by 1919 also known as the Ponce Symphony Orchestra [4]) under the baton of Ponce's renowned composer Juan Morel Campos. Famous for his danceable tunes, Cocolía was also a music teacher and director of the Firefighters' Band, the Banda Municipal de Ponce.