Hacienda Buena Vista

The waterfall that named this place still runs. Don Salvador de Vives, a Catalan immigrant from Venezuela, started the hacienda in 1833 growing plantains and corn. His son and grandson pushed it into coffee, installing the machinery that made it one of the most successful plantations in Puerto Rico's mountains — including the only surviving example of its turbine type, still powered by the same water. The Puerto Rico Conservation Trust acquired the property in 1984 and opened it as a museum. The machinery runs. Go.