Gregoria M. Rivera De Quirino Memorial Hospital

Location: Vigan, Ilocos Sur

Category: Association/Institution/Organization 

Type: Institutional marker

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1949

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

GREGORIA M. RIVERA DE QUIRINO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

ESTABLISHED, 1950-51, IN HONOR OF MRS. GREGORIA RIVERA DE QUIRINO DAUGHTER OF DOMINGO RIVERA AND MARIA MENDOZA, BOTH OF THE TOWN OF AGOO. BORN, SEPTEMBER 7, 1868, DIED JUNE 16, 1908. SPOUSE OF MARIANO QUIRINO Y QUEBRAL FROM CAOAYAN, ILOCOS SUR. MOTHER OF EIGHT CHILDREN ONE OF WHOM, ELPIDIO QUIRINO, BECAME THE SECOND PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES.

Isinilang Sa Pook Na Ito, 10 Ng Marso 1869 Macario Adriatico

Location: Calapan, Oriental, Mindoro

Category: Personages

Type: Biographical marker

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1949

Installed by: Philippine Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

ISINILANG SA POOK NA ITO, 10 NG MARSO 1869 

MACARIO ADRIATICO

MANANANGGOL, MANANALUMPATI, MANUNULAT, MAMBABATAS, ANAK NINA LUCIANO ADRIATICO AT NATALIA GONZALES. UNANG KINATAWAN NG MINDORO SA ASAMBLEA FILIPINA. MAKATLONG NAHALAL, 1907-1916. KAGAWAD NG LUPON SA KODIGO. UNANG KAGAWAD NA PILIPINO, AKADEMYA REAL NG WIKA SA MADRID. PATNUGOT NG AKLATAN AT MUSEO NG PILIPINAS, 1917-1919. YUMAO SA MAYNILA, 14 ABRIL, 1919.

Gregoria M. Rivera Memorial Library

Location: Calle Burgos, Vigan, Ilocos Sur

Category: Buildings/Structures

Type: Building

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1949

Installed by: Philippine Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

GREGORIA M. RIVERA MEMORIAL LIBRARY

THIS BUILDING WAS CONSTRUCTED TO HOUSE THE MUNICIPAL JAIL, 1657; MADE PROVINCIAL JAIL WHEN ILOCOS SUR BECAME A PROVINCE, 1818; REPAIRED, 1855; SEIZED BY THE REVOLUTIONISTS UNDER COL. JUAN VILLAMOR, 1898; TAKEN OVER BY THE AMERICAN FORCES WHO DETAINED IN IT THE POLITICAL LEADERS, MENA CRISOLOGO, ESTANISLAO REYES AND ENRIQUE QUEMA, 1899. PRESIDENT ELPIDIO QUIRINO WAS BORN IN THIS BUILDING 16 NOVEMBER 1890, WHEN HIS FATHER WAS THE WARDEN. CONVERTED INTO A LIBRARY, 27 OCTOBER 1948, IN HONOR OF PRESIDENT QUIRINO’S MOTHER, GREGORIA RIVERA MENDOZA DE QUIRINO.

Site of the Diocese of Nueva Segovia

NHCP Photo Collection, 2019

NHCP Photo Collection, 2019

Location:Vigan, Ilocos Sur
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: Convent
Status: Level II - Historical marker
Marker date: 1949

Installed by: Philippine Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

SITE OF THE DIOCESE OF NUEVA SEGOVIA

FOUNDED IN LAL-LO, CAGAYAN, 14 AUGUST 1595, WITH FR. MIGUEL DE BENAVIDES AS FIRST BISHOP, BY THE BULL OF POPE CLEMENT VIII, THROUGH THE EFFORTS OF BISHOP DOMINGO DE SALAZAR IN MADRID. TRANSFERRED TO VIGAN, 1758, OCCUPYING A BUILDING WHICH ESCAPED CAPTURE BY THE REBELS WHEN DIEGO SILANG, WHO DEFEATED THE BISHOP’S FORCES, WAS ASSASSINATED BY VICOS, 1763. PRESENT BUILDING CONSTRUCTED, 1783–1790, REPAIRED, 1824–1826, ALSO HOUSED THE ECCLESTIASTICAL COURT UNTIL 1890. OCCUPIED BY THE REVOLUTIONISTS WHO IMPRISONED BISHOP JOSE HEVIA CAMPOMANES, 1896. USED AS GARRISON BY THE AMERICAN FORCES UNDER LT. COL. JAMES PARKER, 1899.

Luzon Landing

© Ryomaandres/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA 4.0

Location: Blue Beach Site, Dagupan City
Category: Site/Events
Type: Site
Status: Level II - Historical marker
Marker date: 1949

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

LUZON LANDING

ON THE SHORE KNOWS AS BLUE BEACH BUNOAN DAGUPAN CITY FIRST COMBAT TROOPS OF THE SIXTH ARMY OF THE UNTIED STATES OF AMERICA UNDER THE COMMANDS OF GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR LANDED 9 JANUARY 1945 TO LIBERATE THE ISLAND OF LUZON THUS FULFILLING  HIS PROMISE TO THE FILIPINO PEOPLE "I SHALL RETURN"

Fort Nuestra Señora del Rosario (Fort San Pedro)

Location: Iloilo City, Iloilo (Region VI)
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: Fortification
Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1949 

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

FORT NUESTRA SEÑORA DEL ROSARIO

SITE OF FORT NUESTRA SENORA DEL ROSARIO. BUILD IN 1617 AS A PROTECTION AGAINST PIRATES. IT WAS MADE OF MORTAR AND STONE AND WAS SQUARE IN SHAPE WITH FOUR BASTIONS. THE ONE FACING SOUTH WERE BUILT BY GENERAL JUAN DE MESA.

(Source: Historical Markers Region V-XII, National Historical Institute, 1994, Manila; p. 116)

Church of Tanauan, Leyte

 

Location: Tanauan, Leyte (Region VIII)
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: House of Worship
Status: Level II - Historical marker
Marker date: 1949

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text: 

CHURCH OF TANAUAN, LEYTE

CONSTRUCTED BY THE JESUIT MISSIONARIES, 1704, AND TURNED OVER TO THE AUGUSTINIANS, 1768–1843. REPAIRED AND ENLARGED 1850–1860 BY FR. FRANCISCO DE PAULA MARQUEZ WHO ADDED A TRANSEPT AND SURROUNDED THE PREMISES WITH THICK ROCK-WALL HAVING A WATCH TOWER ON EACH FOUR CORNERS FOR DEFENSE AGAINST PIRATES. WITHSTOOD HURRICANE AND TIDAL WAVE OF 1897.

Pook na Sinilangan ni Balagtas

Location: Francisco Balagtas Memorial School, Bigaa–Plaridel Road, Brgy. Panginay, Balagtas, Bulacan

Category: Sites/Events
Type: Site
Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1949

Installed by: Philippine Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

POOK NA SINILANGAN NI BALAGTAS

DITO SA NAYON NG PAÑGINAY, BAYAN NG BIGAÁ, BULAKÁN, ISINILANG SI FRANCISCO BALAGTAS BALTAZAR, NOÓNG IKÁ-2 NG ABRIL, 1788. ANÁK NINA JUAN BALTAZAR AT JUANA DE LA CRUZ. SIYA ANG KINIKILALANG AMÁ NG WIKANG TAGALOG NA MAYKATHA NG WALÁNG KAMATAYANG AWIT NA FLORANTE AT LAURA. SINÁ JOSÉ BURGOS, JOSÉ RIZAL, MARCELO H. DEL PILAR, MARIANO PONCE, MACARIO ADRIATICO, EPIFANIO DE LOS SANTOS, RAFAEL PALMA, AT IBÁ PANG PANTÁS AT BAYANI NG BANSÁ, AY NAGSIKILALA SA KADAKILAAN NG NASABING AWIT NI BALAGTAS. NAMATAY SIYA SA BAYAN NG UDYONG, BATAAN, NOONG IKÁ-20 NG PEBRERO, 1862.

Church of San Fernando, La Union

© Raphael Benjamin De Guzman/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA 3.0

NHCP Photo Collection

Location: San Fernando City, La Union (Region I)
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: House of Worship

Status: Level II - Historical marker
Marker date: 1949

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

CHURCH OF SAN FERNANDO, LA UNION

CHAPEL MADE OF STONE AND THATCH ERECTED, 1764 BY FR. FRANCISCO ROMERO AND SANTIAGO HOLARTE AT BARRIO SAN VICENTE FORMERLY KNOWN AS PINDANGAN AFTER WHICH SAN FERNANDO WAS FIRST CALLED. MOVED TO TANQUE, THEN TO KABAROAN, AND AFTERWARDS TO ITS PRESENT SITE WHERE IT WAS BUILT OF STONE AND BRICK BY FR. JUAN SOROLLA, SIMON GUILLERMO AND PEDRO FERNANDO, 1773–1786. DAMAGED BY EARTHQUAKE, 1892. OCCUPIED BY THE REVOLUTIONISTS UNDER COL. BLAS VILLAMOR, 1898, WHEN THEY OVERWHELMED THE SPANISH FORCES THAT SOUGHT SHELTER THEREIN. DESTROYED DURING THE LIBERATION, 26 FEBRUARY 1945. RECONSTRUCTED BY THE RESIDENTS THROUGH THE EFFORTS OF BISHOP SANTIAGO C. SANCHO, 1947–1949. REDEDICATED, 10 FEBRUARY 1949.

Fort Pilar

NHCP Photo Collection, 2009

NHCP Photo Collection, 2009

NHCP Photo Collection, 2009

Location: N.S. Valderosa Street, Zamboanga City
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: Fortification
Status: Level II - Historical Marker and National Cultural Treasure per Presidential Decree No. 260, s. 1973

Marker date: 1949

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

FORT PILAR

FOUNDED AS SOUTHERN OUTPOST OF SPANISH DOMAIN UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF MELCHOR DE VERA, 1635; ATTACKED BY THE DUTCH, 1646; DESERTED WHEN TROOPS WERE CONCEN-TRATED IN MANILA TO DRIVE AWAY CHINESE PIRATES, 1663; RECONSTRUCTED BY THE SOCIETY OF JESUS, 1666; REBUILT THE MANAGEMENT OF JUAN SICARRA, 1719; STORMED BY DALASI, KING BULIG, WITH 3,000 MOROS, 1720; CANNONADED BY THE BRITISH, 1798; WITNESSED THE MUTINY OF SEVENTY PRISONERS, 1872; ABANDONED BY THE SPANIARDS, 1898; SEIZED BY THE JAPANESE, 1942; TAKEN OVER BY THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, JULY 1946.

Cathedral of Vigan

NHCP Photo Collection, 2008

NHCP Photo Collection, 2008

Location: Vigan, Ilocos Sur (Region I)
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: House of Worship
Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1949 

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

CATHEDRAL OF VIGAN

BUILT IN 1641, THIS CHURCH BECAME A CATHEDRAL WHEN THE SEAT OF THE DIOCESE OF NUEVA SEGOVIA WAS TRANSFERRED FROM LAL-LOC, CAGAYAN, TO VIGAN, 1758. OCCUPIED BY THE REVOLUTIONISTS UNDER COL. JUAN VILLAMOR,1896, AND BY THE AMERICAN FORCES UNDER LT. COL. JAMES PARKER, 1899. A CHAPEL OF WOOD AND THATCH ERECTED ON THIS SITE, 1574, BY ORDER OF JUAN DE SALCEDO, THE CONQUISTADOR AND FOUNDER OF VILLA FERNANDINA, AFTER WHICH VIGAN WAS FIRST CALLED, WAS DAMAGED BY EARTHQUAKE IN 1619 AND 1627 AND BY FIRE IN 1739.

Corregidor*

NHCP Photo Collection, 2008

NHCP Photo Collection, 2008

NHCP Photo Collection, 2008

Location: Corregidor Islands, Cavite (Region IV-A)
Category: Sites/Events
Type: Site
Status: Level I- National Historical Landmark

Marker date: 1949

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

CORREGIDOR

DERIVED ITS NAME FROM CORREGIMIENTO OR MUNICIPAL DISTRICT. ABOUT 1225 THE ISLAND BECAME A STRONGHOLD FOR CHINESE PIRATES UNTIL THE LATTER WERE DRIVEN BY THE MOROS. BECAME SPANISH POSSESSION, 1570, WHEN SPANIARDS ARRIVED IN MANILA FROM PANAY. OCCUPIED BY THE DUTCH, 1600. RECAPTURED BY THE SPANIARDS AS A FORTIFICATION BESIDES BEING USED AS LIGHTHOUSE, DOCKYARD, NAVAL CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL, PENAL COLONY, AND CHECKING POINT FOR SHIPS TO HAVE THEIR PAPERS CORRECTED. SURRENDERED WITHOUT RESISTANCE TO ADMIRAL DEWEY, MAY 6, 1898. FIRST OCCUPIED BY THE AMERICANS AS A CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL, NOVEMBER 14, 1904, AND FIRST GARRISON, THE 35TH COMPANY, C.A.C., COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN C.E. KILBOURNE, ARRIVED, MAY 8, 1908. BECAME THE SEAT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES DURING WORLD WAR II AND THE SCENE OF PRESIDENT QUEZON’S TAKING OATH OF OFFICE ON HIS SECOND TERM. PRESIDENT QUEZON AND HIS FAMILY SOUGHT SHELTER AT MALINTA TUNNEL, DECEMBER 24, 1941. OCCUPIED BY THE JAPANESE, MAY 6, 1942; RETAKEN BY THE AMERICANS, MARCH 2, 1945. TURNED OVER TO THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, OCTOBER 12, 1947.

Gregorio Aglipay National Shrine*

NHCP File Photo

NHCP File Photo

Location: Batac, Ilocos Norte (Region I) 

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site, Memorial

Status: Level I- National Shrine

Legal basis: R.A. 5648, s. 1969
Marker date: 1949

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

BIRTHPLACE OF GREGORIO AGLIPAY

SITE WHERE ARCHBISHOP GREGORIO AGLIPAY, SOLDIER, RELIGIOUS REFORMER AND PATRIOT, WAS BORN, 8 MAY 1860. SON OF PEDRO AGLIPAY AND VICTORIA LABAYAN. ORDAINED CATHOLIC PRIEST, 1889; FIRST MILITARY CHAPLAIN OF THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION, 1896; MEMBER OF THE MALOLOS CONGRESS AND VICAR GENERAL OF THE REVOLUTION, 1898; AND FOUNDER OF THE PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENT CHURCH, 1902. DIED 1 SEPTEMBER 1940.