Today there is a neighborhood named "Comunidad Serrano" part of Barrio Capitanejo of Juana Diaz where Hacienda Serrano was located.  It was some 1¾ miles east northeast of Central Boca Chica.  By 1855, Hacienda Serrano was already owned by David Casimiro Laporte ( -1879) based on baptismal records for children of two of his slaves.  Laporte owned the hacienda until his death and after his death, it was operated by his estate called Sucn. David Casimiro Laporte whose legal representative were at different times Adolfo Souffront and Juan Prat, owner of Hacienda La Matilde and one of the wealthiest men in Ponce.

In July 1906 the US Supreme Court decided the case Maria  Margarita Volcey Souffront, Widow of Fleurian, Maria Elizabeth Odette Fleurian, and Maria Antoinette Ema Fleurian, Widow of Souffront, Plffs. in Err., v. La Compagnie des Sucreries de Porto Rico and Erneste Maurice. The case was filed by the heirs of Clemente de Fleurian ( -1892) against La Compagnie des Sucreries de Porto Rico, owner of Central Fortuna for the recovery of five hundred four acres of land known as Hacienda Serrano.  The facts in the case state that in 1879 the plantation was owned by David Laporte and others and that Clemente de Fleurian was the plantation manager.  On October 9, 1879, a private contract of sale of the plantation was executed in France.  A month later the Sucn. David Casimiro Laporte filed a suit in the civil court of Nimes, France to annul the contract.  The civil court in Nimes entered a decree of nullity in the suit brought by the Laportes and this decree, upon appeal of de Fleurian , was affirmed by the court of appeals of Nimes on March 4, 1885 and by the court of cassation on May 17, 1886.  .

On February 18, 1880, the day after de Fleurian returned to Puerto Rico, before notary Ramon Rodriguez in Juana Diaz, he mortgaged the property in the amount of $36,811 pesos to Fernando Labastide owner of Hacienda San Fernando in Ponce. The Sucn. David Casimiro Laporte comprised of David, Emilia and Ágata Laporte, all residents of France, instituted a case in the Ponce District Court decided on October 26, 1891 in which Labastide was summoned, and not making opposition, title was registered back in the name of Sucn. David Casimiro Laporte.  Subsequently the Sucn. David Casimiro Laporte sold the property free of all encumbrances on October 16, 1883 to Juan Forgas Bayó and José Gallart Forgas owners of Central Fortuna. Labastide appealed the case to the Supreme Court of Porto Rico, who on January 28, 1891 affirmed the judgment of the court of first instance. An appeal later taken by Labastide, this time to the Supreme Court of Spain, was dismissed

José Gallart Forgas commissioned Francisco Oller to paint his sugar mills. In 1880 Oller’s student Pío Casimiro Bacener painted Hacienda La Luciana and Hacienda Serrano pictured below and in 1885 Oller painted Central Fortuna.