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Hacienda Buena Vista, also known as Hacienda Vives (or Buena Vista Plantation in English), was a coffee plantation located in Barrio Magueyes, Ponce, Puerto Rico. The original plantation dates from the 19th century. The plantation was started by Don Salvador de Vives in 1833. [3] [4]
Museo Hacienda Buena Vista is a historic coffee plantation farm museum in Barrio Magueyes, Ponce, Puerto Rico. The museum opened in 1987, and receives some 40,000 visitors a year. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The museum has been described as "Puerto Rico's first living museum of art and science."
Hacienda Lealtad is a working coffee hacienda which used slave labor in the 19th century, located in Lares, Puerto Rico. [1]A hacienda (UK: / ˌ h æ s i ˈ ɛ n d ə / HASS-ee-EN-də or US: / ˌ h ɑː s i ˈ ɛ n d ə / HAH-see-EN-də; Spanish: or ) is an estate (or finca), similar to a Roman latifundium, in Spain and the former Spanish Empire.
Buena Vista was in Spain's gazetteers [6] until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States.
While the castle was valued at US$17–US$25 million, [6] it was purchased for a mere US$400,000 and included much of the furniture in the sale. [7] The city's initial intent was to turn it into a museum of Puerto Rican music. [7] The Museum of Puerto Rican Music was eventually established elsewhere in the city.
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Buena Vista is the name of several localities in Puerto Rico: Buena Vista, Bayamón, Puerto Rico; Buena Vista, Carolina, Puerto Rico; Buena Vista, Hatillo, Puerto Rico; Buena Vista, Humacao, Puerto Rico; Buena Vista, Las Marías, Puerto Rico
In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Hoyo Mulas (name changed in 2010) was 1245. [7] Buena Vista barrio name was changed from Hoyo Mulas in 2010.