Ingenio Azucarero Vives

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]

Ingenio Azucarero Vives
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Puerto Rico Historic Sites and Zones
Location	Avenida Central, Barrio Machete, Guayama, Puerto Rico
Coordinates	17°58′45″N 66°7′3″W
Area	5.5 acres (2.2 ha)
NRHP reference No.	76002249[1]
RNSZH No.	2001-(RS)-23-JP-SH
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	September 1, 1976
Designated RNSZH	May 16, 2001

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976,^[1] and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2001.^[3]

It is believed to have been constructed by 1828.^[4]

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.

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

Modern photographs show that the complex has been restored.