The Ingenio Azucarero Vives ( en, 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

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, in southern

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Sugarcane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of (often hybrid) tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with ...

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. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1976. It is believed to have been constructed by 1828. In 1976, the site was found to be significant as the only example of early industrial architecture and the only windmill in Puerto Rico. with It was documented by the

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program, with photographs by

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. Modern photographs show that the complex has been restored.

References

External links

Coverage in Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico
* Historic American Engineering Record in Puerto Rico National Register of Historic Places in Guayama, Puerto Rico Sugar plantations in the Caribbean Windmills in the United States Sugar production {{PuertoRico-NRHP-stub