[4] In 1895, Pogolotti left his home country for New York, USA, first working as a waiter and a porter then improvising as a French language teacher.
[3] Dino Pogolotti arrived in Cuba during a very particular time for the island:[1] after the 1895 war of independence from Spain, after the yellow fever epidemic and the Valeriano Weyler's dreadful reconcentrados policy.
[citation needed] Pogolotti's project based on the European social housing model was selected among two others, and so was started the new development in Marianao.
[5] In one of the houses of the Barrio, on avenida 61, the remains of Antonio Guiteras, founder of Joven Cuba, and Carlos Aponte[1] were hidden.
Carlos J. Finlay, the Cuban physician who first theorized that a mosquito was the carrier of the yellow fever virus, had his laboratory on avenida 90.