The earliest information found about Hacienda Tuna is by Gilberto Bermúdez Navedo in his book Desarrollo Económico de Guayama 1810-1855.  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 aside from being Mayor of Guayama from 1840-1843, Vazquez was a plantation owner , establishing in 1835 at Barrio Caimital a hacienda called Olimpo.  At the beginning Hacienda Olimpo had a blood driven mill but in 1858 it was hydraulic when it was sold to Florencio Capó Planchado (sic). 

According to Luis Figueroa in his book Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico as well as José Ferreras Pagán in his 1902 book Biografía de las Riquezas de Puerto Rico, Hacienda Tuna was established by Catalonian immigrant José Antonio Vázquez, author in 1848 of Descripción Topográfica del Pueblo de Guayama.  Ferreras Pagán states it was owned in 1902 by Edgardo Vázquez and had been rented since 1863 to Messrs. Cautiño and González who improved its machinery.  He states it produced 500 hogsheds of muscovado sugar.

Figueroa states that of the haciendas still grinding 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.  It was owned by Rafael Vázquez the son of José Antonio Vázquez.

Rafael Vazquez referred to by Figueroa is Rafael Vázquez Vazquez ( -1890), however Rafael Vazquez Vazquez death certificate indicates his parents were Manuel Vazquez and Petrona Vázquez.  At the time of his death, Rafael Vázquez Vázquez was married to Cádiz born Enriqueta Aguilar, upon his death in 1890 the hacienda was inherited by his only surviving son and heir Edgardo Vázquez Aguilar (1866-1918) as stated by Ferreras Pagán. 

In the 1850's, another of José Antonio's sons Antonio José Vázquez, established Hacienda Aguirre which was later inherited by his daughter from his marriage to Enriqueta Aguilar, Antonia Desia Vázquez Aguilar (1854-1894).  Antonia Desia was was married to Ignacio Rodriguez La Fuente the Property Registrar in Guayama at the time.  Hacienda Aguirre was the basis for the foundation of Central Aguirre.  

Enriqueta Agular was the mother of both Edgardo Vázquez Aguilar and Antonia Desia Vazquez Aguilar.  It appears although not verified, that brothers Rafael and Antonio José Vázquez both married the same Enriqueta Aguilar. 

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. 

Ferreras Pagán states that Hacienda Olimpo was established by José Antonio Vazquez in 1835 and in 1858 was acquired by Florencio Capó y Planchado (sic).  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 and Francisco Gil Capó Planchart who also co-owned with Florencio Hacienda Caimital in Guayama and outright owned Hacienda Destino in Santa Isabel.  

In 1896 Hacienda Tuna was leased and operated by Spanish immigrant Genaro Cautiño Vazquez (1852-1910) and Manuel Gonzalez Martinez under the name Cautiño & Gonzalez.  Cautiño & Gonzalez modernized it by installing a steam driven mill.  Genaro Cautiño Vazquez 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.  He bagan 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 32,000 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 which never materialized. 

The notice of his death in the New York Times edition of October 17, 1944 states 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 730 cuerdas of which 150 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.  It appears its structural integrity may soon be compromised and the structure may crumble.