Corsican immigrant from Morsiglia Antonio Francisco Ghilfucci Stella (1776-1845) emigrated to Spanish Sainte Domingue sometime in the 1790s.  In Spanish Sainte Domingue he married French immigrant from Mans, Rosa Allard (1772-1820) from which marriage three children were born who did not reach adulthood.  Due to the political insurrection there, in the early 1800s he left Spanish Sainte Domingue for St. Thomas.  He then settled in Arroyo, Puerto Rico where on October 11, 1816 he received his letter of domicile. 

Per the 1824 Arroyo land records, Ghilfucci was a sugar farmer and owned an estate comprised of ninety cuerdas.  By 1832, he had increased his land holdings to some nine hundred cuerdas in barrios Arroyo, Yaurel, Sabana Enea and Guásimas, spread between Hacienda Belvedere and Hacienda Isabel in Arroyo and Hacienda Patillas in Patillas.

​In her book De Los Bueyes al Vapor, Lizette Cabrera Salcedo states that the windmill at Hacienda Berdecía was the second windmill installed in Guayama after that of Hacienda Carlota which was installed in 1827.  She states that the windmill was bought at a cost of $2,400 in Saint Croix through the firm Nelthropp & Cia. of Jorge Nelthrop and installed in 1833 by technicians also from Saint Croix .

In 1836, Ghilfucci married a second time Port Au Prince, French Sainte Domingue born Thalia Joyaux aka Talía Yoyó and Thalía Jaujo.  In 1843 a legal dispute arose between Ghilfucci and Genovese immigrant Francisco Bartolomé Dechoudens who was 25% owner in Hacienda Belvedere and its administrator.  After Ghilfucci's death in 1845, his only heir was his second wife Thalia Joyaux. 

In 1848 Thalia married Pedro Santos Santelli, who was owner of Hacienda Las Palmas in Guayama.  In 1849 the dispute was settled when Dechoudens part was bought by the widow for $10,000.  In 1850 Tahlia and Santelli entered into an eleven year lease agreement of Hacienda Belvedere and Hacienda Patillas with Cook & O'Hara after which term Hacienda Belvedere would revert back to them and Cook & O'Hara would buy Hacienda Patillas for $10,000.

This One hundred seventy two cuerdas hacienda, of which some one hundred fifteen were used to grow sugarcane, was first known as Bervedere or Belvedere (not to be confused with Hacienda Belvedere in Cabo Rojo) and also by Hacienda Bella Vista.  It has often times been identified by a slew of other different names in addition to the ones mentioned above, apparently in error, and has also been identified in error as Hacienda La Milagrosa which remains are nearby in Arroyo.  Eventually Hacienda Belvedere was acquired by Fantauzzi Hnos. and its land became part of Central Lafayette. 

Its remain is one of only six wind driven mill structures remaining on the island, the others being at Hacienda Hacienda La Milagrosa, Hacienda Carlota, Central Plazuela, Hacienda Santa Ana and Hacienda Vives.  It is located on the road to the Arroyo Lighthouse and Balneario Punta Guilarte, some 200m south of PR-53  and south of Urbanización San Antonio.