Name of Town Date of Foundation Basis / Source Madridejos, Cebu 31 May 1889 Erección de Pueblos Madridejos, formerly called Lawis (also spelled…
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School Records of Anastasio J. Pinzón, One of the Signers of the Acta de la Proclamación de Independencia del Pueblo Filipino at the NHCP Serafin D. Quiason Resource Center
By: Reymann L. Guevarra “And holding up this flag of ours, I present it to the gentlemen here assembled, who solemnly swear to recognize and defend it unto the last drop of their blood.”[1] This is an excerpt of the Act of Declaration of Philippine Independence in 1898. At the end of this important document are the signatures of 98 witnesses, one of them was Don Anastasio J. Pinzón. The document was signed on June 12,1898 at the residence of General Emilio Aguinaldo in Cavite-Viejo, now Kawit, Cavite. General Aguinaldo declared Philippine Independence from more than 300 years of Spanish… 
Name of Town Date of Foundation Basis / Source Lupi, Camarines Sur 17 October 1726 de Huerta (1865) Lupi was founded as a…
Name of Town Date of Foundation Basis / Source Anini-y, Antique 5 August 1949 E.O. 253 s. of 1949 The Municipality of Anini-y…
Name of Town Date of Foundation Basis / Source Agno, Pangasinan 27 July 1832 Erección de Pueblos According to Buzeta’s Diccionario Geográfico, Estadístico, Histórico…
(A talk on the occasion of the installation of the historical marker in Tabunan, 27 March 2025) By Erlinda Kintanar-Alburo, of the Cultural and…
By: Ayesha S. Apostol Historic Sites Development Officer II Before the arrival of colonizers, communal societies in the Philippines recognized women as equals to…
By Reymann L. Guevarra “The Philippines are ours forever, ‘territory belonging to the United States,’ as the Constitution calls them. And just beyond…
By Diana A. Galang The NHCP received a copy of the Evening Tribune Vol. VII no. 124 issue of 26 April 1899 from Mr.…
By Diana A. Galang Senior History Researcher, Resource Center Apolinario Mabini y Maranan, honored with the title “Brains of the Revolution” by historians. He…
By: Ayesha S. Apostol Historic Sites Development Officer II The expansion of citrus farming in the Philippines began in the 1870s in Batangas.…
Ismael Magallanes Jr. Museum Researcher II PRESIDENT JOSE P. LAUREL’S BUST SCULPTURE NHCP Presidential Car Museum Collection Jose P. Laurel, who served as the…
Ismael Magallanes Jr. Museum Researcher II “My fellow citizens: there is one thought I want you always to bear in mind. And that…