San Beda College

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Location: San Beda College, Mendiola St., San Miguel, Manila

Category: Association/Institution/Organization
Type: Institutional marker
Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1948

Installed by: Philippine Historical Committee (PHC)
Marker text:

SAN BEDA COLLEGE

OPENED BY THE BENEDICTINE FATHERS ON ARLEGUI STREET IN 1901. THIS COLLEGE BECAME AFFILIATED WITH THE REAL Y PONTIFICA UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTO TOMAS ON 27 JANUARY 1906. THIS BUILDING WAS INAUGURATED ON JUNE 15 1926. THIS CONFRATERNITY OF THE SANTO NIÑO DE PRAGA WAS ESTABLISHED IN THIS COLLEGE ON DECEMBER 24, 1904.

Camp Kasisang

Location: Malaybalay, Bukidnon

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1948

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text: 

CAMP KASISANG

FIFTY-HECTARE CAMP KASISANG, MALAYBALAY IN THE HEART OF BUKIDNON PLATEAU, WHERE BRIGADIER-GENERAL ROXAS AND 6,000 PRISONERS OF WAR WERE IMPRISONED FROM AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1942. HE WAS GIVEN A FREE HAND TO MANAGE THE CAMP, MAINTAINING PRISONERS IN GOOD HEALTH AND COMPARATIVE COMFORT.

Rizal in Biñan

Location: Gen. M. Capinpin Street, Biñan, Laguna

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1948

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

RIZAL IN BIÑAN

IN THIS TOWN OF BIÑAN IN 1871, DR. JOSE RIZAL RECEIVED HIS FIRST FORMAL SCHOOLING UNDER MAESTRO JUSTINIANO CRUZ, WHO LATER ADVISED HIM TO STUDY IN A HIGHER SCHOOL IN MANILA.

Where Bonifacio was Court-Martialled

NHCP Photo Collection, 2010

Location: Bonifacio Trial House, Col. C. Riel Street, Maragondon, Cavite

Category: Buildings/Structures

Type: Building

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1948

Marker text:

WHERE BONIFACIO WAS COURT-MARTIALLED

IN THIS HOUSE, ERECTED IN 1889, BY ITS OWNER, TEODORICO REYES, ANDRES BONIFACIO, FOUNDER OF THE KATIPUNAN, WAS TRIED WITH HIS BROTHER, PROCOPIO, MAY 1897, BY A COURT-MARTIAL HEADED BY BRIGADIER-GENERAL MARIANO NORIEL. HE WAS SHOT, MAY 10, 1897, AT MT. BUNTIS.

Bataan and Democracy

NHCP Photo Collection, 2011

NHCP Photo Collection, 2011

Location: Prado Bridge, Km. 96 Jose Abad Santos Avenue, Brgy. Balsic, Hermosa, Bataan

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site, Event

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1948

Marker text:

BATAAN AND DEMOCRACY

THE LITTLE MOUNTAINOUS PENINSULA OF BATAAN SAVED DEMOCRACY AND THE WHOLE WORLD FROM THE EVIL HANDS OF THE DEVIL.

(FROM THE RADIO BROADCAST OF PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, JANUARY 5, 1945.)

The Manila Grand Opera House

NHCP Photo Collection

NHCP Photo Collection

Location: Manila (Region NCR)
Category: Sites/Events
Type: Site 

Status: Level II - Historical marker
Marker date: 1948

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

THE MANILA GRAND OPERA HOUSE

ERECTED ON THIS SITE, AND THE SCENE OF THE INAUGURATION OF THE FIRST PHILIPPINE ASSEMBLY, WAS BURNED NOVEMBER 16, 1943. THIS NEW BUILDING WAS ERECTED AND INAUGURATED APRIL 11, 1947.

Birthplace of Manuel Luis Quezon

Location: Baler, Aurora (Region III)

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker Date: 1948

Marker text:

BIRTHPLACE OF MANUEL LUIS QUEZON

ON THIS SITE OF THIS TOWN, BALER, WAS BORN MANUEL LUIS QUEZON, 19 AUGUST 1878. INDOMITABLE CRUSADER OF PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE, GREAT AND FIERY STATESMAN, DYNAMIC AND FAR-SIGHTED LEADER, AND TRUE PATRIOT. SON OF LUCIO QUEZON AND MARIA MOLINA. BECAME A SOLDIER IN 1899, LAWYER, 1903; MEMBER, FIRST PHILIPPINE ASSEMBLY, 1907–1909; RESIDENT COMMISSIONER AT WASHINGTON, D.C., 1909–1916; PRESIDENT, PHILIPPINE SENATE, 1916–1935; PRESIDENT, COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES, 1935–1944. DIED AT SARANAC LAKE, NEW YORK, 1 AUGUST 1944.

Lingayen Beach

Location: Lingayen, Pangasinan (Region I) 

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Beach

Status: Level II - Historical marker
Marker date: 1948

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

LINGAYEN BEACH

ON THIS BEACH, GENERAL LLOYD WHEATON LANDED HIS TROOPS ON 7 NOVEMBER 1898 TO CUT OFF THE RETREAT OF GENERAL EMILIO AGUINALDO; AND GENERAL OF THE ARMY DOUGLAS MACARTHUR BEGAN HIS CAMPAIGN ON 9 JANUARY 1945 FOR THE LIBERATION OF LUZON FROM THE JAPANESE INVADERS.

Birthplace of General Gregorio del Pilar*

NHCP Photo Collection, 2006

Location: Cupang, Bulakan, Bulacan (Region III)

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Status: Level I- National Historical Landmark

Legal basis: Resolution No. 2, S. 2009
Marker date: 1948 

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee

Marker text:

BIRTHPLACE OF GEN. GREGORIO DEL PILAR

SITE IN THE TOWN OF BULACAN WHERE GENERAL GREGORIO H. DEL PILAR WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER 1875. FIFTH CHILD OF FERDINAND H. DEL PILAR AND FELIPA SEMPIO. INTREPID, VALIANT AND YOUNGEST FILIPINO GENERAL. FIGURED MOST PROMINENTLY IN THE DEFENSE OF KAKARON, ATTACK OF PAOMBONG, LIBERATION OF BULACAN, AND IN THE BATTLE OF TIRAD PASS WHERE HE DIED "A SOLDIER AND A GENTLEMAN," 2 DECEMBER 1899.