In a song recorded in 1915 in Loíza, the following coro can he heard: Mi querida eeeesmi querida eeeesen el cuartel de Buena VistaSánchez, yo la saludé (JA Mason Recordings (1915): 68. SCY 4223, no. 3) It is impossible to know with certainty what location this song refers to since there are various places in […]

According to Jaime Montilla, The Central Buena vista operated between 1882-1911 and was: established at Barrio Hoyo Mulas of Carolina by Ignacio Arzuaga who installed a steam driven mill.  In 1882 equipment from the defunct Hacienda Monserrate in Rio Grande was installed elevating it to a central sugar mill.  It was later owned by the firm Sobrinos […]

Capitanejo once contained two sugar mills and plantations that relied on the coerced labor of enslaved Africans and their descendants: Hacienda Fortuna (later the site of Central Fortuna, whose ruins still exist there) and Cintrona Segunda (once owned by the Archeval brothers) which by the mid-19th century became the most productive sugar mill in the […]