Hacienda Larrauri reportedly was established ca. 1870 and ceased operations in 1900.  Photographed below are the remains of the sugar factory building and the smoke stack.  Supposedly, the remains of the Jamaican Train used in that era to cook the sugarcane juice are still inside the factory building, however, no access was available inside to verify.  Today, the land around the sugar factory remains where sugarcane was grown is being used to raise cattle. 

It is reasonable to believe this hacienda was owned by members of the Larrauri family given its name, though little information has been found to this effect. The first member of the Larrauri family resident of Coamo on which information was found is José Jesús Larrauri Aponte (1819-1886). José Jesús died on April 18, 1886 in Coamo, his death certificate states that he was the son of Cruz Aponte and José Manuel Larrauri a landowner born in San Juan and resident of Cayey, that he was a landowner born in Cayey married to Fausta Aponte of Yabucoa, resident at the time of his death at the house of his son Julio Martin Larrauri Aponte in Coamo. José Jesús was four times Mayor of Coamo, from 1857 to1864, in 1872, 1874 and from 1879 to 1883.

José Jesús was most likely the promoter and owner of Hacienda Larrauri until his death in 1886. As stated above, sugar manufacturing operations here ceased in 1900, four years after his death. The 1910 census records show two of his sons as farmers in Coamo; Julio Martin Larrauri Aponte (1857- ) as an “agricultor finca cultivo general” or produce farmer and José Ruperto Larrauri Aponte (1864-1941) as an “agricultor finca ganado” or cattle farmer. Based on this information, it appears that by 1910 the family land that was previously used to grow sugarcane by José Jesús was already being used by his sons for other agricultural purposes. Additional support to this is found in a court case decided on June 28, 1890 in which reference is made to some cattle delivered to José Manuel Larrauri Aponte (1863-1895), another one of the ten children born from the marriage of José Manuel Larrauri and Cruz Aponte. The court case states that the cattle, which Larrauri suspected was stolen, was delivered to the property of the sucesión Larrauri, which suggests that as of June 1890 the land of Hacienda Larrauri had not been split among the heirs and was still held in the name of the estate of José Jesús.

These ruins are located on the east side of PR-153 just before a bridge and an ”I ♥ Coamo” sign that can’t be missed.