Ingenio_Azucarero_Vives

Ingenio Azucarero Vives

Ingenio Azucarero Vives

Historic place in Guayama, Puerto Rico

The Ingenio Azucarero Vives (English: Vives Sugar Plant), also known as Hacienda Vives, is a historic sugar mill complex with ruins of windmill and a processing building, in Barrio Machete of Guayama, in southern Puerto Rico. Sugarcane was ground by the windmill and the extracted juice was further processed in the processing building, by slaves. A slave uprising occurred here in the early 1800s.[2]

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[1]

It is believed to have been constructed by 1828.[3]

In 1976, the site was found to be significant as the only example of early industrial architecture and the only windmill in Puerto Rico.[2]

It was documented by the Historic American Engineering Record program, with photographs by Jack Boucher.

  • Mill building ruins
  • Opening in southern wall of mill building ruins
  • Interior view of mill building ruins

Modern photographs show that the complex has been restored.

References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [2]
    Antonio E. Colberg (1976). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Ingenio Azucarero Vives / Hacienda Vives". National Park Service. Retrieved July 8, 2016. with ten photos from 1976
  3. [3]
    EPRL Editorial Group (September 17, 2014). "Ingenio Azucarero Vives, Guayama". Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 26, 2019. Retrieved October 26, 2019.


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