Labor + Economy
La hacienda donde el agua tambien tenia recibo
Hacienda Buena Vista was not just coffee: ASME, Para la Naturaleza, and NPS help show water, machinery, forced labor, and agricultural power in Ponce.
Receipt Spine
- ASME recognizes Hacienda Buena Vista as the only known example of a Barker hydraulic turbine.
- Para la Naturaleza frames the site as a 19th-century agricultural hacienda powered by coffee, minor fruits, corn-flour production, forced labor, the Canas River, and a hydraulic turbine.
- The receipt is not just the machine: it is how land, water, forced labor, and technology combined to produce agricultural power.