At one time, sugar cane was big business in Puerto Rico


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Posted by Gainsborough on July 17, 2025 at 12:53:39

In Reply to: Do we grow sugar cain in the States. Would that not have to be posted by blindness on July 17, 2025 at 09:12:36

I was born on a sugar plantation in Ensenada PR. The plantation as mostly self-sufficient - we had our own police department, fire station, hospital, radio station, etc.

Looking back, I see it was very colonial. But as a kid, it was paradise for me.


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