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Hacienda Lealtad (IPA: [ˌsjẽn̪.d̪a le.al̪ˈt̪að̞]; also known as Hacienda La Lealtad, [2] (IPA: [aˌsjẽn̪.d̪a la le.al̪ˈt̪að̞]) and once known as Hacienda la Esperanza (IPA: [aˌsjẽn̪.d̪a la es.peˈɾãn.sa]) is a historic coffee plantation in barrio La Torre, Lares, Puerto Rico. A large hacienda, it was founded in 1830 ...
Ediciones Huracán, Inc., Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. Boyer, William W. 1983. America's Virgin Islands. A History of Human Rights and Wrongs. Carolina Academic Press. Durham, North Carolina. Buitrago, Carlos. 1892. Haciendas cafetaleras y clases terratenientes en el Puerto Rico decimononico. Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras.
Hacienda Juanita (built 1833-34) is a coffee plantation hacienda in the town of Maricao, Puerto Rico. The design is based on typical Puerto Rican culture, and was commissioned by the wife of a Spanish official. [1] Coffee production at the hacienda declined from the 1960s. [2]
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Hacienda Gripiñas was dedicated mainly to the cultivation of coffee and contributed significantly to the growth of this industry in Puerto Rico during the 19th and 20th century. Pérez and his wife died late in the 19th century, as the coffee plantation industry decayed in the island because of Hurricane San Ciriaco (1899) and the Spanish ...
Hacienda Lealtad is a working coffee hacienda which used slave labor in the 19th century, located in Lares, Puerto Rico. [1]An 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.
Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza (Spanish for "La Esperanza sugarcane plantation") is a former 2265-acre sugarcane plantation located in the Manatí river valley in the municipality of Manatí, Puerto Rico which was founded in the 1830s and, by the 1860s, was one of the largest in the island. It remained operational from 1830 to 1880.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006, [1] and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2007. [2] Designed by Jose Maria Torres y Medina, it is located at the junction of Puerto Rico Highway 111 and Puerto Rico Highway 129. It was named one of America's 11 Most Endangered Places in 2019. [3]