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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".
This is a list of mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico's southern economic center, the island's second largest [1] and second most important city. [2] [3]From 1692 to 1840, the office of mayor [a] in Ponce was filled either by local hacendados or by military officers appointed by the governor, depending on whether the political situation on Spain at the time was that of a constitutional or an ...
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.
52nd Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico; In office January 1851 – 23 April 1851: Preceded by: ... Manuel Cedeño de Poveda (c. 1800 – c. 1860) was Mayor of Ponce, ...
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 ...
Rondón Martinez is best known for having inaugurated, in 1843, Ponce's old cemetery (Viejo Cementerio de Ponce) on Calle Simon de la Torre. This cemetery, also called Antiguo Cementerio de Ponce, became the Panteón Nacional Román Baldorioty de Castro. [2] Rondon Martínez was the first person to be buried in the cemetery. [3]
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]
In 1826, [12] Quesada and his two male children formed a business corporation in Ponce and established it as a financial services company focused on money lending. [13] On 27 February 1820 there was a fire in Ponce that destroyed almost the entire city.