Hacienda Amelia was located in Barrio Rio Cañas Abajo of Juana Diaz.  Its better known owners were Domingo Palmieri Simonpietri (1830-1907) and his wife Josefina Roubert Castaing who acquired the hacienda from José M. Campos sometime after 1846.  At some point in time before 1870, Palmieri became partner with his brother-in-law Francisco Roubert Castaing (1839-1897) in the ownwership of the hacienda. 

José M. Campos ownership of Hacienda Amelia is verified by the 1909 Report of the Governor of Puerto Rico to the President of the United States that states that a concession of water right to take water from the Jacaguas River for irrigation purpose was granted to José M. Campos of Hacienda Amelia on October 30, 1846.   Ownership by Palmieri & Roubert is evidenced by another water right granted on March 6, 1873 to Domingo Palmieri and Francisco Roubert Castaing.  

An 1870 Court case established by Juan Cortada, owner of Hacienda Descalabrado regarding the use of water from the Jacaguas River for irrigation purposes, states that the owner of Hacienda Amelia was the firm Palmieri & Roubert whose members were Domingo Palmieri and Francisco Roubert.  At the time, Hacienda Amelia consisted of one thousand three hundred seventy eight cuerdas of which eight hundred thirty four were from the consolidation with Hacienda Coraza.   

By 1906 Hacienda Amelia had ceased operations and its sugarcane was processed at Central Fortuna.  A 1906 court case filed by the Ponce & Guayama Railroad Co. requesting a right of way as a servitude over a tract of land of Hacienda Amelia, states that Hacienda Amelia was the property of Domingo Palmieri and was leased to the Compagnie des Sucreries de Porto Rico. 

It is popular folklore that Domingo Palmieri began construction of what has been called a palace in the hacienda.  However, construction was never finished and there appears to be no remains if indeed there was such.  It is reported that in 1882 Francisco Roubert Castaing and his wife Estelvina Costa Guevara (1853-1900) built a residence on the northwest corner of the Plaza Muñoz Rivera in Ponce, structure that today houses the Ponce Plaza Hotel & Casino and can be seen in the gallery below.  Construction of this residence is also credited to Felix Saurí Vivas owner of Central Constancia in Ponce.  The property is sometimes referred to as the Casa Saurí and sometimes as Casa Saurí-Roubert.