Hacienda Del Palomar was owned by José Machado.  By 1902 it had installed the steam driven mill from Hacienda Santa Rita in Manatí that had recently shut down to become part of Central Monserrate. There is not much information about this hacienda nor did José Ferreras Pagán in his 1902 book Biografía de las Riquezas de Puerto Rico. Ferrerap Pagán states that Machado did not want to appear in his book therefore gave him no information on the hacienda.  The book Puerto Rico Coffee and Sugar Cane Plantation Tokens by Luis Rodriguez Vazquez has a list of coffee and sugar haciendas in existence in the 19th and early 20th Centuries which include Hacienda Palomar as owned by José Machado in Barrio Morell of Camuy.

Regarding José Machado, in 1903 he signed a Distillers Bond as surety for Osvaldo Laborde securing the government for the payment of taxes related to the manufacture and sale of rum by Laborde on his Hacienda Maria Teresa in Camuy.  Machado was also one of the shareholders and Vice President of the short lived Central Camuy.

José Machado is listed as José Antonio Machado Amador (1858-1943) in the 1910 Census Records as a sugarcane planter. José was related to Demetria Machado Amador, the wife of Pedro Amador Perez owners of Hacienda Fortuna in Isabela.  In 1887 José Machado Amador married Casimira Gonzalez Machado whom he divorced in 1901, the year he married Cecilia Román Rivera.  José and Cecilia had a daughter named Teresa Machado Román (1883-1977) who married Osvaldo Laborde Quintero (1873-1944) on April 18, 1903.  This is the same Osvaldo Laborde for who José signed the bond stated above. 

​The drone pictures below were taken in 2022 by and provided courtesy of Carlos Alemán.