Hacienda Buena Vista in Maricao was established ca. 1870 by Spanish immigrant from Mallorca Bartolomé Mora.  There is another Hacienda Buena Vista located in Las Marias though also owned by a Frontera family not related to this one. By 1890 this Hacienda Buena Vista consisted of two hundred and forty cuerdas, fifty of which were planted with coffee trees.  Mora returned to live in Mallorca in 1892 and sold the plantation to its then administrator Juan G. Frontera Ripoll (1867-1928).  It has been reported that it was sold to Antonio Frontera Ripoll apparently in error as Antonio died that same year (1892) as an unmarried seventeen year old.  It has also been reported that the Casona or Manor House was built in 1889 by Juan Frontera Ripoll, however at that time the property was owned by Bartolomé Mora.

Juan G. Frontera Ripoll was a Spanish immigrant from Sóller, Mallorca, Spain who arrived in Puerto Rico in 1881 and married Juana Vivaldi Pacheco in 1895.  His brother Bartolomé Frontera Ripoll (1870-1956) arrived on the island in 1890 and owned a coffee plantation in Barrio Rio Prieto of Yauco.  Upon Juan's death in 1928, the hacienda passed on to his son Bartolomé Frontera Vivaldi (1896-1994).  It has been reported that its most current known owner was Bartolomé's son Nestor Frontera Soto who lived the farm, however, census records show Bartolomé and his wife Isabel Soto Romero only had one son Oscar Frontera Soto (1928-1991) and three daughters; Gloria (1924- ), Luz Maria (1926-2012) and Olga (1934- ). 

It is located in Barrio Indiera Alta, accessible on a six hundred meter paved trail heading east off of PR-128 km 34.2.​  On or around 1936, some eighty cuerdas were sold to the Puerto Rico Economic Development Administration (PRERA). Subsequently additional land was sold currently consisting of sixty seven cuerdas.

The aerial picture is made available courtesy of Archeologist Dr. Luis Pumarada O'Neill.  The other pictures are part of a 1987 study made by Dr. Pumarada O'Neill made available to us by the Government of Puerto Rico State Historic Preservation Office. Notice the TV Antennae that suggests the the picture was taken sometime after the 1950s.