Salvador de Vives Rodó (1784 – 24 November 1845Socorro Giron. Ponce, el teatro La Perla y La Campana de la Almudaina. Ponce Municipal Government. 1992. page 31.), also known as Salvador Vives, was a Puerto Rican hacendado and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1 January 1840 to 5 January 1842Eduardo Neumann Gandia. "Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce." 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. pp.275-280.See also, Socorro Giron. Ponce, el teatro La Perla y La Campana de la Almudaina. Ponce Municipal Government. 1992. p.26. and then again from 1 January 1844 to 24 November 1845. His son, Carlos Vives, was a member of the Ponce Municipal Assembly.Guillermo Baralt. Buena Vista: Life and work in a Puerto Rican hacienda. 1999. University of North Carolina Press. p. 5.Guillermo Baralt.La Buena Vista, 1833-1904: Estancia de frutos menores, fabrica de harinas y hacienda cafetalera. 1988. Fideicomiso de Conservacion de Puerto Rico. p. 4.
Background Vives Rodó was the son of Quirse Vives and Ana Maria Rodó.Buena Vista: life and work on a Puerto Rican hacienda, 1833-1904. Guillermo A. Baralt. 1999. University of North Carolina Press. Page 150. Retrieved 22 February 2010. He was a wealthy coffee plantation owner who established the now historic Hacienda Buena Vista.Buena Vista: Life and Work on a Puerto Rican Hacienda, 1833-1904. Guillermo A. Baralt.
First mayoral term (1840) In 1840, Vives named the two central plazas in downtown Ponce "Plaza Las Delicias"; up to that point the two plazas were called Plaza Mayor (which came to be known as Plaza Degetau) and Paseo de la Alameda (which was later renamed Plaza Munoz Rivera).Neysa Rodriguez Deynes, Rafael J. Torres Torres, and Carlos Aneiro Perez. Brevario Sobre la Historia de Ponce y sus Principales Lugares de Interés. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Secretaría de Cultura y Turismo of the Government of the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce. 1st edition. 1991. p. 105. Also, under Vives' administration as mayor, the Ponce City Hall was built in 1842. De Vives trusted the design of City Hall to prominent architect Francisco Gil Capó.Casa Alcaldia The trees in Plaza Las Delicias are due to De Vives' direction.Buena Vista: life and work on a Puerto Rican hacienda, 1833-1904. Guillermo A. Baralt. Page 12.
Second mayoral term (1844) Vives also led the city as mayor from 1 January 1844 until his death on 24 November 1845.Socorro Girón. Ponce, el teatro La Perla y La Campana de la Almudaina. Ponce Municipal Government. 1992. page 31.
Legacy One of Ponce's main thoroughfares (Calle Vives) is named after him. "The street was named by proclamation of the city council in 1863."Buena Vista: life and work on a Puerto Rican hacienda, 1833-1904. Page 81. Guillermo A. Baralt. Fideicomiso de Conservación de Puerto Rico. 1988. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
See also List of mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico List of Puerto Ricans
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