Hacienda de Carlos Vassallo facts for kids
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Hacienda de Carlos Vassallo
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Historic smoke stack (Ca. 2019)
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 Location in Puerto Rico
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| Location | Puerto Rico Highway 693, Km. 0 Dorado, Puerto Rico |
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| Area | 300 acres (120 ha) |
| Built | 1849 |
| NRHP reference No. | 88001848 |
| Added to NRHP | March 22, 1989 |
Hacienda de Carlos Vassallo is a historic place in the town of Dorado, in Puerto Rico. It is also known as Casa Hacienda de Don Oscar Nevárez, or Hacienda de Río Nuevo.
It is the agriculture, architecture and industry surrounding this hacienda that makes it an important part of Puerto Rican history and culture.
The privately owned property has had many owners over the years, including Don José Nevares. Oscar Nevares, the uncle of Ricardo Rosselló, the governor of Puerto Rico, has a house there. The hacienda is now being used as a dairy farm with over 350 cows and is located next to the Plata River, where cows from the farm can be seen from Puerto Rico Highway 693 and Puerto Rico Highway 2.
It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on March 22, 1989.
Still standing, is a historic smoke stack from 1861, a chimney which was used when the hacienda was a sugarcane mill.
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Dairy farm structures.
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Cow stables.
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Hacienda de Carlos Vassallo cows at the nearby river in Dorado.
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Cows awaiting to be milked.
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Cows at Hacienda de Carlos Vassallo.
