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| | Yucatan Today - Hacienda History - Yucatan Culture |
 | | There were agricultural haciendas throughout Mexico, cattle raising haciendas in the northern part of Mexico, tequila producing haciendas in Jalisco, mining haciendas in the state of Hidalgo, sugar producing haciendas in Morelos, lumber haciendas in the state of Mexico (the state, not the country) and the Yucatan's henequen or sisal producing haciendas. |
 | | Each hacienda has the main house, the machine house, the worker's humble one- room homes, a school, an infirmary, the store (where the workers were kept in debt), the church, the cemetery, the hydraulics area, the jail and the stables. |
 | | The haciendas of Yucatan saw their hey-day in the early 1900's when the local economy was booming due to the sisal fiber that was used to make rope, cord and twine. |
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