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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."
Magueyes is one of the 31 barrios of the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Together with Cerrillos, Machuelo Arriba, Maragüez, Montes Llanos, Portugués, Sabanetas, and Tibes, Magueyes is one of the municipality's eight interior barrios. The name of this barrio is of native Indian origin. [3] It was created in 1831. [4]
English: Schematic site plan of Hacienda Buena Vista coffee plantation compound - in barrio Magueyes, Ponce, Puerto Rico. As it stood in the 19th century, showing all important components. Date
Coffee plantation in Puerto Rico. Coffee production in Puerto Rico has a checkered history between the 18th century and the present. Output peaked during the Spanish colonial rule but slumped when the autonomous island was illegally annexed by the United States in 1898 and the Puerto Rican Peso devalued forcing Puerto Ricans to sell their land cheap and become wage laborers instead. [1]
Small science museum located in the former telephone and telegraph station of Guaynabo about the history of the telegraph in Puerto Rico. Hacienda Buena Vista Museum: Ponce: Agriculture: Historic coffee plantation, farm and manor house. Operated by the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico. Hacienda Enriqueta Museum: Moca: Historic house
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.
The old Hacienda Buena Vista plantation in barrio Magueyes, now a coffee mill museum, used the force of Cañas River in the early 20th century to turn its coffee bean grinders via an elaborate system of water channels. [7]