Hacienda Indios was located in Barrio Indios of Guayanilla not too distant from Central San Francisco about a mile to the east. According to information provided by well known Guayanilla historian Otto Sievens Irizarry, in 1888 Hacienda Indios belonged to Domingo Olivieri Antongiorgi (1820-1899), its original owner. That year it consisted of four hundred thirty cuerdas of which forty were planted with sugar cane that produced three hundred thirty quintals of raw sugar for the grinding season 1888-1889. There is no information regarding how advanced the machinery its sugar factory may have been at the time.

Domingo Olivieri Antongiorgi had arrived in Puerto Rico by 1830 when he is reported as a resident of San Germán where he lived still in 1860 when the census reports him as a “comerciante”. The December 1, 1868 edition of La Gaceta de Puerto Rico reports him as a resident of Yauco and a member of the municipal board donating ten Escudos to help the residents that suffered damages in the October 29, 1867 San Narciso Hurricane. On October 5, 1874 the Land Board, an agency of the insular government responsible for distributing unused, barren land to farmers that would work it, granted Olivieri some two hundred cuerdas in Barrio Pasto of Guayanilla that he expanded and converted into the coffee plantation he named Hacienda Tomino, his birthplace in Corsica. It is unknown if by 1874 he already owned Hacienda Indios or if Hacienda Tomino was his first incursion into agriculture.

Domingo married three times, first to Magdalena Rossi Pimentel ( -1846) and had four children all who preceded him in death, he married a second time to Felícita Rodriguez Santiago with whom he had seven children and a third time to Josefa Commins Raldiris (1843-1914) with whom he had four children. Upon Domingo’s death in 1899 the hacienda passed on to his daughter Santia Olivieri Commins (1867-1943) who in 1892 married Spanish immigrant from San Feliü de Guixols, Catalonia Narciso Ferrer Sardó (1863-1939). The hacienda was then inherited by their son Jaime Ferrer Olivieri. Jaime married Catalina Castañer Bermudez but had no children so upon his death he left the hacienda to his niece Carmen Dolores Arrache Ferrer, daughter his sister Carmen Emiliana Ferrer Olivieri (1900-1965). Carmen was married to José S. Arrache Battistini, a physician born in Aguadilla but a resident of Yauco. During the first part of the 20th Century Dr. Arrache was owner of the small but well known “Clinica Amparo” together with Dr. Arquelio Ramirez Marini. Today the hacienda is owned by Augusto (Tito) Palmer Arrache, the son of Augusto Palmer Calderón and Carmen Dolores Arrache Ferrer.

It is unknown when the hacienda stopped grinding the sugarcane grown on its lands but it is reasonable to believe it was upon the establishment of the nearby Central Rufina in 1901 but most likely Central San Francisco in 1913 due to its proximity. A hint that may have been the case is that one of Domingo’s sons, Ulises Olivieri Rodriguez owned nine cuerdas in Barrio Indios called “Finca Ulises” which piece of land was among the the ones that formed part of Central San Francisco. It is also reasonable to believe that much of its land was absorbed by one of the two sugar mills, again most likely Central San Francisco due to its proximity.

When the pictures below were taken in 2016, the Palmer family dedicated some of the land retained as a sheep farm producing lamb meat for the local market.