Guaynabo Sites

"Located between the low hills and marshy bay shore of Guaynabo," what was known as the Cataño cement plant by government sources was constructed with federal funds administered through the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration (PRRA), a New Deal agency. Completed in 1938, the large facility (renamed Puerto Rico Cement Corporation in 1940) was immediately able to produce 1.5 million bags of cement a year changed the course of infrastructure development and even the social fabric of Puerto Rico for years to come. Geoff G. Burrows, pp. 114-115: Puerto Rican civil engineers envisioned the construction of a lasting “hurricane-proof” infrastructure, and labored to...