1850 Medalla Religiosa Religioni Et Bonis Artibus, silver, ex Vives Fam. Ponce

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Religioni Et Bonis Artibus .date unknown. Silver. Obverse- Religioni Et Bonis Artibus" Religion and Fine Arts, Reverse- "REG. COLL. SOC. JESV" Queen Society Jesus.
The following is exonumia medal from the last descendants of the Salvador de Vives Family, (Silvia, Carmen, Alicia, and Guillermo) passed down through generations. They are mostly religious, academia, and other.    Salvador de Vives Rodo (1784–1845) arrived in Puerto Rico from Venezuela fleeing the struggle for independence going on in that country at the beginning of the nineteenth century. At the time he was a 12-year Spanish career officer from the province of Catalonia in Spain, who had been stationed in Caracas, until he was forced to leave after the defeat of the Spanish Army in the battle of Caraboo in 1821. That same year Vives traveled from Venezuela to Puerto Rico on June 27, 1821 with his wife Isabel Diaz and son Carlos.  Accompanying him were also two slaves. He settled in the southern port city of Ponce, where the sugar industry was booming. With no capital to buy sugarcane-growing land, Salvador Vives worked for the municipal government of Ponce during the 1820s and 1830s in assisting other displaced Spanish emigrants and also as a public notary.  By 1838 he had enough money to purchase 482 acres of hilly, undeveloped, tropical forest land in barrio Magueyes, to the north of the city of Ponce, and near the Canas River.  The land consisted mostly mountainous terrain with thick forest, and far from the town. Fortunately, Vives was able to purchase the lands relatively cheap for the lands in greatest demand at that time were the rich flatlands near the coast that provided the perfect conditions for the sugar-growing industry.  The development of a new road in that area, the now PR-123, would also guarantee that products from Vives future farm could be brought down for sale to the marketplace in Ponce. The construction of the farm-to-market PR-123 road would prove to be a factor in the success of Vives hacienda.  Don Salvador de Vives Rodó was also a politician and Mayor of Ponce from 1840 to 1842 and then again from 1844 to 1845.   Under de Vives' administration as mayor, the now historic Ponce City Hall was built.  De Vives trusted the design of City Hall to prominent architect Francisco Gil Capó.  Also to his credit is the current Ponce City Coat of Arms (Lion) and the trees planted in the Plaza De Las Delicias.   The estate located in the southern foothills of Puerto Rico's central mountain range is now a popular living history museum. Buena Vista flourished in the nineteenth century first as a farm that furnished food for the city of Ponce and surrounding plantations, later as a producer of corn and cornmeal ground at the estate's water-powered mill, and finally as a coffee plantation. Drawing on an impressive range of primary sources, Buena Vista Plantation, it’s now owned by the Puerto Rico Conservation Trust (Fideicomiso de Conservación), who operates it as a museum. It is located on 82 acres of fertile land that includes a humid subtropical forest some 7 miles north of Ponce on Route PR-123, in Corral Viejo, a sub-barrio of Barrio Magueyes.
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