The earliest information found about Hacienda La Tuna is in the book Desarrollo Económico de Guayama 1810-1855 by Gilberto Bermúdez Navedo. Bermúdez states that "...on April 11, 1832 Hacienda La Tuna, the property of Antonio Vazquez, was consumed in its totality, meaning its sugarcane fields and all its establishments." Bermúdez also states that on October 5, 1835 José Antonio Vázquez formed a mercantile partnership with Andrés Rivé and that aside from being Mayor of Guayama from January 1, 1840 to December 31, 1843, he was a plantation owner establishing in 1835 at Barrio Caimital a hacienda called Olimpo.  In its beginning Hacienda Olimpo had a blood driven mill but in 1858 its machinery was hydraulic when sold to Florencio Capó Planchado (sic). 

José Ferreras Pagán in his 1902 book Biografía de las Riquezas de Puerto Rico states that Hacienda Tuna was established by Antonio Vázquez,  that since 1896 it was leased to Messrs. Cautiño & Gonzalez and that its owner in 1902 was Edgardo Vázquez.  He states it consisted of seven hundred cuerdas and produced five hundred hogsheads of muscovado sugar. According to Luis Figueroa in his book Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico, of the twenty four haciendas still grinding in Guayama in 1872, only one had ownership that could be traced back to the original creole families who sought to develop commercial agriculture in the region in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.  That was Hacienda Tuna, located in barrio Caimital on the west end of the township of Guayama, owned by Jose Manuel and Rafael Vázquez, sons of José Antonio Vázquez, author in 1848 of the book Descripción Topográfica del Pueblo de Guayama.  Jalil Sued Badillo in his Guayama: Notas para su historia lists the Guayama plantation owners between 1825 and 1865 and includes Antonio Vázquez as owner of Hacienda La Tuna and José Antonio Vázquez as owner of Hacienda Olimpo. He also states that Rafael Vázquez of Barrio Caimital was one of the largest tax payers in Guayama in 1887.

In a blog post on August 21, 2021 by Romina Jorge Rodriguez, great-granddaughter of Antonia Decia Vázquez Aguilar (1854-1894) the daughter of Antonio José Vázquez (1815-1855) and Cádiz born Enriqueta Aguilar Texidor (ca.1825-1874) who were married on June 24, 1854, she states that ca. 1850 Antonio José was granted land on which he developed a sugar factory named Hacienda Aguirre. She also states that upon the death of Antonio José Vázquez in 1855, Enriqueta married Rafael Vázquez (1826-1890) ca. 1857. It appears there is no relationship between Antonio José and Rafael as per Rafael’s death certificate his parents were Manuel Vázquez and Petrona Vázquez of Cayey while the parents of Antonio José were Antonio Vázquez ( -1834) and Maria Leonor Vazquez (ca.1773-1848) . As stated in the death certificate, at the time of his death Rafael was survived by his only living son Edgardo Vázquez Aguilar (1866-1918).

Based on the facts stated on the case Aguilar v. Vázquez decided by the Puerto Rico Supreme Court on March 15, 1904, Rafael Vázquez Vázquez died in 1990 leaving as his sole heir his son Edgardo Vázquez Aguilar which confirms the statement by Ferreras Pagán that Edgardo was the owner in 1902. Based on the information provided by Romina Jorge Rodriguez, Antonia Decia Vázquez Aguilar inherited Hacienda Aguirre, was later the basis for the foundation of Central Aguirre, from her father Antonio José Vázquez Vázquez while her half-brother Rafael Vázquez Vázquez inherited Hacienda Tuna from his father Rafael. There is a possibility though not verified, that there was a family relationship between either Antonio José Vázquez Vázquez or Rafael Vázquez Vázquez with brothers León Vázquez Vázquez and Antonio Vázquez Vázquez owners of Hacienda Lucia in Cayey which later evolved into Central Cayey.

At least during the period from 1849 to 1856, Hacienda Tuna was owned by Venezuelan born of Spanish descent Florencio Capó Planchart (1811-1882), also owner of Hacienda Caimital and Hacienda Olimpo.  Capo's ownership of Hacienda Tuna is evidenced by a concession of water right granted him on May 18, 1849 to extract water from the Guamaní River for irrigation purposes at his haciendas Tuna and Caimital. Ownership is also evidenced by an edict on the November 23, 1880 edition of La Gaceta de Puerto Rico notifying of a 14,500 pesos mortgage dated June 27, 1856 by Florencio Capó in favor of Francisco Bruno secured by ½ of Hacienda Tuna.  Upon Florencio's death in 1882, in 1884 title of Hacienda Olimpo was transferred to his son José Mariano Capó Alvarez (1842- ) who in 1906 sold it to A. Hartman & Co. and became part of Central Machete.  Florencio was the brother of Pedro Juan Capó Planchart and Francisco Gil Capó Planchart who also co-owned with Florencio Hacienda Caimital in Guayama and outright owned Hacienda Destino in Santa Isabel.  It is unknown when Hacienda Tuna was acquired by Antonio José Vázquez Vázquez from Florencio Capó but it was definitely after 1856. That being the case, it appears that the statement by Gilberto Bermudez Navedo in his book Desarrollo Económico de Guayama 1810-1855 referred to above that in 1832 Hacienda La Tuna was owned by Antonio Vázquez is incorrect .

As stated by Ferreras Pagán, in 1896 Hacienda Tuna was leased and operated by Spanish immigrants Genaro Cautiño Vázquez (1852-1910) and Manuel Gonzalez Martinez under the name Cautiño & Gonzalez.  Cautiño & Gonzalez modernized it by installing a steam driven mill.  Genaro Cautiño Vázquez was the father of Genaro Cautiño Insua (1883-1954) who would later establish Central Guamani. Manuel Gonzalez Martinez (1863-1944) was a Spanish immigrant from Asturias that arrived in Puerto Rico in 1874 and established residence in Salinas where he began working at a farm.  His hard work soon made him overseer or mayordomo and allowed him to save some money with which he began acquiring land in and around Salinas where he raised cattle.  After the US occupation in 1898, Manuel saw the future being in the sugar industry and started growing sugarcane in his lands, becoming one of the largest colonos of Central Aguirre.  He also started raising oxen instead of cattle to supply the needs of the growing sugar industry.

In the Milwaukee, WI publication Green Sheet Journal edition of June 6, 1940 it is stated that Gonzalez at the time owned two sugar mills, was half owner of another and the greater part of the sugar land that supports a fourth.  It states he owned thirty two thousand acres of the finest land in Puerto Rico.  The Municipal Government of Salinas document naming  the road from PR-3 to the community kown as Playa as "Paseo Manuel Gonzalez Martinez", states that at the time of his death Martinez owned Central Carmen and Central San Vicente and Central Toa.  This Central Toa referrs to Compañia Azucarera del Toa owner of Central Constancia.  Humberto Garcia Muñiz in his book Sugar and Power in the Caribbean states that in 1912-1913 Gonzalez had plans to build Central Covadonga in Salinas but these plans never materialized.  The notice of his death in The New York Times edition of October 17, 1944 state that at the time of his death he was owner of Central San Vicente and president of the Carmen sugar mill and the American Railroad Co.  The notice also sates that Mr. Gonzalez bought the Condado Hotel from the Vanderbilt Hotel Co. but four years later he resold it.   

Hacienda Tuna was located in Barrio Caimital, northwest of the town of Guayama, near the Guamaní River on the mountain foothills.  The plantation consisted of seven hundred thirty cuerdas of which one hundred fifty were planted with sugarcane.  Its annual production was 88 tons of sugar and 6,100 gallons of molasses.  The only remain of this sugar factory is the chimney, which has a substantial fissure from top to bottom that suggests its structural integrity may soon be compromised and the structure may crumble.