The era of the henequen boom from the late 1800s to the early 1900s was known as the time of " green gold ".
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Another unusual aspect of the hacienda was that the owners performed scientific experiments on their yields of henequen to improve planting methods and yields.
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The property was originally a cattle and horse facility and was converted to a henequen manufactory during the latter half of the nineteenth century.
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Henequen plantation workers, initially seeing Mexico solely as a place of sojourn rather than of settlement, initially made little effort to learn Spanish.
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The engine was used until 1984, when the production of henequen fiber in the hacienda ended, after more than a century in operation.
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Once their contracts were up, most settled in Mexico, either continuing to work on henequen plantations or moving to various cities in the country.
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These laborers could be found in cotton fields, henequen plantations, mines and other labor-intensive areas from the desert north to the Yucat�n.
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The powerhouse was the most important building of the estate during the henequen phase, as it was where the sisal fiber was processed into rope.
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His newspaper soon caught the public eye for its criticism of the Diaz dictatorship and for the bad treatment of workers in the Henequen plantations of Yucat�n.
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There was a henequen hacienda at the site which was part of a labor dispute heard in the 1916 Tribunals of the Revolution hearings under Governor Salvador Alvarado.