San Fernando - Landas ng Pagkabansang Pilipino, 1899

NHCP Photo Collection, 2024

NHCP Photo Collection, 2024

NHCP Photo Collection, 2024

Location: San Fernando, La Union

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 2 December 2024

Installed by: National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP)

Marker text:

SAN FERNANDO

LANDAS NG PAGKABANSANG PILIPINO, 1899

SA LUNGSOD NA ITO NG SAN FERNANDO, LALAWIGAN NG LA UNION DUMAAN SI EMILIO AGUINALDO, PANGULO NG UNANG REPUBLIKA NG PILIPINAS, AT ANG KANYANG HUKBO HABANG IPINAGTATANGGOL ANG KALAYAAN AT PAGKABANSA NG MGA PILIPINO, 19 NOBYEMBRE 1899.

ANG PANANDANG PANGKASAYSAYANG ITO AY PINASINAYAAN BILANG AMBAG SA PAGGUNITA SA IKA-125 ANIBERSARYO NG KALAYAAN AT PAGKABANSANG PILIPINO, 12 HUNYO 1898 - 23 MARSO 1899

Caba - Landas ng Pagkabansang Pilipino, 1899

NHCP Photo Collection, 2024

NHCP Photo Colelction, 2024

Location: Caba, La Union

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 25 November 2024

Installed by: National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP)

Marker text:

CABA 

LANDAS NG PAGKABANSANG PILIPINO, 1899

SA BAYANG ITO NG CABA, LA UNION, DUMAAN SI EMILIO AGUINALDO, PANGULO NG UNANG REPUBLIKA NG PILIPINAS, AT ANG KANYANG HUKBO HABANG IPINAGTATANGGOL ANG KALAYAAN AT PAGKABANSA NG MGA PILIPINO, 17 NOBYEMBRE 1899.

ANG PANANDANG PANGKASAYSAYANG ITO AY PINASINAYAAN BILANG AMBAG SA PAGGUNITA SA IKA-125 ANIBERSARYO NG KALAYAAN AT PAGKABANSANG PILIPINO, 12 HUNYO 2023 - 23 MARSO 2026.

Aringay - Landas ng Pagkabansang Pilipino, 1899

NHCP Photo Collection, 2024

NHCP Photo Collection, 2024

Location: Aringay, La Union

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 25 November 2024

Installed by: National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP)

Marker text:

ARINGAY

LANDAS NG PAGKABANSANG PILIPINO, 1899

SA BAYANG ITO NG ARINGAY, LA UNION DUMAAN SI EMILIO AGUINALDO, PANGULO NG UNANG REPUBLIKA NG PILIPINAS, AT ANG KANYANG HUKBO. HABANG IPINAGTATANGGOL ANG KALAYAAN AT PAGKABANSA NG MGA PILIPINO, 17 NOBYEMBRE 1899. MAINIT SILANG SINALUBONG NG MGA OPISYAL AT MAMAMAYAN NG ARINGAY. HINIMOK NI AGUINALDO SA KANYANG TALUMPATI ANG MGA ILOKANO NA PANATILIING NAG-AALAB ANG DAMDAMING MAKABAYAN. NILISAN DIN ANG BAYAN NA ITO PARA SA CABA, LA UNION SA ARAW DING IYON.

ANG PANANDANG PANGKASAYSAYANG ITO AY PINASINAYAAN BILANG AMBAG SA PAGGUNITA NG IKA-125 ANIBERSARYO NG KALAYAAN AT PAGKABANSANG PILIPINO, 12 HUNYO 2023 - 23 MARSO 2026.

Camilo Osias

Location: Balaoan, La Union

Category: Personages

Type: Biographical marker

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 17 March 1989

Installed by: National Historical Institute (NHI)

Marker text:

CAMILO OSIAS

MANUNULAT, EDUKADOR, AT ESTADISTA. ISINILANG SA BALAOAN, LA UNION, MARSO 23, 1889. ISA SA MGA PENSIONADO SA ESTADOS UNIDOS, 1905. NAGKAMIT NG TEACHER'S DIPLOMA, WESTERN ILLINOIS STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, 1908, A.B., B.S.E., AT GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN ADMINISTRATION AND SUPERVISION, PAWANG SA COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, E.U., 1910. UNANG PILIPINONG SANGAY TAGAPAMAHALA NG MGA PAARALAN, 1915-16; UNANG KATULONG DIREKTOR NG EDUKASYON, 1919-21; KAGAWAD, UNANG MISYONG PANGKALAYAAN SA E.U., 1921., UNANG PANGULO, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, 1921-34; NAHALAL NA SENADOR, 1925, 1947 AT 1961; NANINIRAHANG KOMISYONADO SA E.U., 1929-35; KINATAWAN, UNANG DISTRITO NG LA UNION, PAMBANSANG ASAMBLEA NG PILIPINAS AT KUMBENSYONG KONSTITUSYONAL, 1934; TAGPANGULO, PAMBANSANG LUPON NG EDUKASYON, 1941; TAGAPAGTATAG, OSISAS COLLEGES SA LA UNION AT TARLAC, 1945. MAY-AKDA NG ILANG AKLAT TUNGKOL KAY RIZAL; NAGSALIN SA INGLES NG NOLI AT FILI. PINAGKALOOBAN DOCTOR OF LAWS, OTTERBEIN COLLEGE, E.U., 1934, AT DOCTOR NG PEDAGOGY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, 1961. HONORIS CAUSA. TUMANGGAP NG GAWAD RIZAL PRO-PATRIA, 1961; ANCIENT ORDER OF SIKATUNA NA MAY RANGGONG DATU 1973. NAMATAY, MAYO 20, 1976.

Pitugan

Location: Pitugan, Tubao, La Union

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1958

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

PITUGAN

HERE BRIGADIER-GENERAL MANUEL ROXAS TOGETHER WITH HIS FAMILY AFTER ESCAPING FROM JAPANESE CUSTODY IN BAGUIO CONTACTED THE AMERICAN LIBERATION FORCES SUNDAY AFTERNOON, 15 APRIL 1945.

Diego Silang (1730–1763)

Location: Caba Town Plaza, MacArthur Highway cor. Diego Silang Avenue, Caba, La Union

Category: Personages

Type: Biographical marker

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1963

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

DIEGO SILANG

(1730–1763)

IN THIS TOWN, CABA, LA UNION, DIEGO SILANG WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 16, 1739. AT THE TIME CABA WAS A BARRIO OF ARINGAY THEN A PART OF PANGASINAN PROVINCE. FAMED LEADER OF THE ILOCOS REVOLT (1762–1763), SILANG WAS ASSASSINATED IN VIGAN ON MAY 28, 1763. AFTER HIS DEATH THE REVOLT WAS CONTINUED BY HIS WIFE, MARIA JOSEFA GABRIELA WHOSE EXECUTION ON SEPTEMBER 20, 1763, ENDED THE UPRISING.

Manuel E. Arguilla (1911–1944)

Location: MacArthur Highway, Bauang, La Union

Category: Personages

Type: Biographical marker

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: August 25, 1983

Installed by: National Historical Institute (NHI)

Marker text:

MANUEL E. ARGUILLA 

(1911–1944)

MANUNULAT, MAKATA. ISINILANG NOONG HUNYO 17, 1911 SA NAGREBCAN, BAUANG, LA UNION. NATAPOS NG B.S.E. SA UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES, 1932. GURO, UNIVERSITY OF MANILA, 1937. ANG KANYANG MIDSUMMER, HOW MY BROTHER LEON BROUGHT HOME A WIFE, AT IBA PANG KUWENTO AY NATALA SA TAUNANG AKLAT NG MAIIKLING KUWENTO NG AMERIKA AT TALAAN NG KARANGALAN PARA SA TAONG 1936. NAGWAGI SA MGA PALIGSAHANG PAMPANITIKAN NG KOMONWELT, 1940. NALATHALA ANG KANYANG KOLEKSIYON SA MGA KUWENTO SA ISANG SERYE NG MGA MANUSKRITO NA MAY PAMAGAT NA PHILIPPINE TALES AND FABLES. NAMATAY NOONG AGOSTO 25, 1944.

The Battle of San Fernando

Location: San Fernando City Plaza, MacArthur Highway cor. F. Ortega Highway, San Fernando, La Union

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1959

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

THE BATTLE OF SAN FERNANDO

THE BATTLE OF SAN FERNANDO BEGAN WITH ASSAULT ON THE JAPANESE POSITION ALONG THE SOUTH BANK OF THE BARORO RIVER, BACNOTAN, LA UNION, BY THE 121ST INFANTRY USAFIP, NL, ON 4 JANUARY 1945, FOLLOWED BY THE SEIZURE OF ENEMY STRONGHOLDS SOUTH OF BARORO AND THE CONCERTED ATTACK ON ENEMY STRONG POINTS SITUATED ALONG OAIG CREEK WHERE IT CROSSED THE SAN FERNANDO–CAMANSI ROAD, ON RESERVOIR HILL AND INSURRECTO HILL AND ON THE BACSIL–APALENG RANGE ON THE SECOND WEEK OF FEBRUARY. BY 24 MARCH 1945 THE ENTIRE SAN FERNANDO AREA WAS SECURED AND ENABLED THE ESTABLISHMENT AT PORO PENINSULA THE HEADQUARTERS OF U.S. ARMY BASE M, BUILD-UP AREA FOR THE PROJECTED INVASION OF JAPAN.

Camp Spencer

Location: Bacnotan–Luna–Balaoan Road, Brgy. Darigayos, Luna, La Union

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1958

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

CAMP SPENCER

NAMED IN HONOR OF PRIVATE GRAFTON SPENCER, AUS, KILLED IN ACTION EARLY 1943. THIS CAMP IN DARIGAYOS, SITE OF THE GHQ, WAS CENTER AND BASE OF OPERATIONS OF THE USAFIP, NL, DURING THE LIBERATION CAMPAIGN OF LUZON, FROM JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1945 WHEN 52,033 ENEMY TROOPS WERE KILLED AND 32,001 CAPTURED. THIS CAMP WAS DEACTIVATED ON ORDERS OF THE PHILIPPINE ARMY, DECEMBER 1946.

DARIGAYOS COVE WAS THE LANDING SCENE OF AMERICAN SUBMARINE LANDINGS FOR VITAL WAR MATERIEL AND SUPPLIES FROM THE SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC AREA, COMMAND OF GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, LATE 1944.

Elpidio Quirino (1890–1956)

Location: Kilometer 247, MacArthur Highway, Caba, La Union

Category: Personages

Type: Biographical marker

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: November 16, 1983

Installed by: National Historical Institute (NHI)

Marker text:

ELPIDIO QUIRINO

(1890–1956)

IPINANGANAK SA VIGAN, ILOCOS SUR, NOONG NOBYEMBRE 19, 1890. UNANG NAGTRABAHO SA GULANG NA 16 NA TAON BILANG GURO SA BARYO CAPARIA-AN. NAGING PANGULO NG PILIPINAS NANG MAMATAY ANG PANGULONG MANUEL ROXAS NOONG ABRIL 15, 1948. INIHALAL BILANG PANGULO NG PILIPINAS NOONG NOBYEMBRE 1949. NAMATAY NOONG PEBRERO 29, 1956.

Caba

Location: Diego Silang Avenue, Caba, La Union

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: June 24, 1979

Installed by: National Historical Institute (NHI)

Marker text:

CABA

ITINATAG NOONG HUNYO 24, 1598 NG MGA PARING AGUSTINO PINAMAHALAAN NG MGA DOMINIKO NOONG 1772 AT DATING SAKOP NG PANGASINAN. ITO’Y ISA SA MGA BAYANG BUMUO NG LA UNION NANG MATATAG ANG LALAWIGANG ITO NOONG 1860. ANG MAGITING NA SI DIEGO SILANG PUNO NG HIMAGSIKANG ILOKANO LABAN SA MGA KASTILA (1762–1763) AY IPINANGANAK SA BAYANG ITO.

Basilica of Our Lady of Charity

NHCP Photo Collection, 2016

NHCP Photo Collection, 2016

NHCP Photo Collection, 2016

Location: Agoo, La Union

Category: Buildings/Structures

Type: House of worship

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1982

Installed by: National Historical Institute (NHI)

Marker text:

BASILICA OF OUR LADY OF CHARITY

LOCATED IN LA UNION’S OLDEST TOWN, AGOO. PARISH AND TOWN FOUNDED IN 1578 BY FRANCISCAN FRS. JUAN BAUTISTA LUCARELLI AND SEBASTIAN DE BAEZA. ORIGINAL CHURCH IN BARANGAY NAGRUGCAN. IMPROVED BY AUGUSTINIAN FR. SATURNINO FRANCO; BELFRY BUILT BY FRS. CASIMIRO MELGOSA AND AQUILINO GARCIA. ALL DESTROYED BY 1892 EARTHQUAKE.

BUILT ON THIS SITE WAS THE NEXT CHURCH WHERE THE LONG-VENERATED IMAGE OF OUR LADY OF CHARITY WAS CANONICALLY CROWNED BY APOSTOLIC NUNCIO SALVATORE SINNO ON 1 MAY 1971 BY RESCRIPT OF POPE PAUL VI. DEMOLISHED IN 1975 FOR A NEW SHRINE. CORNERSTONE LAID ON 8 SEPT. 1975, FEAST OF OUR LADY’S NATIVITY, BY ARCHBISHOP MARIANO A. MADRIAGA, NATIVE OF THE TOWN. CONSTRUCTION STARTED 8 JAN. 1976 FROM DONATIONS BY THE FAITHFUL LED BY A SON OF THE TOWN, TOURISM MINISTER JOSE D. ASPIRAS AND HIS FAMILY AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF BISHOP VICTORINO LIGOT OF SAN FERNANDO DE LA UNION DIOCESE.

CONSECRATED MARIAN SHRINE ON 8 DEC. 1978, FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION BY SEBASTIANO CARDINAL BAGGIO, PREFECT OF THE SACRED CONGREGATION OF BISHOPS, WITH PRESIDENT FERDINAND E. MARCOS AND FIRST LADY IMELDA ROMUALDEZ MARCOS IN ATTENDANCE.

ELEVATED TO RANK OF BASILICA MINORE BY POPE JOHN PAUL II, ON 15 JULY 1982, ON PETITION OF BISHOP SALVADOR LAZO THROUGH ARCHBISHOP BRUNO TORPIGLIANI, APOSTOLIC NUNCIO TO THE PHILIPINES. DEDICATED AS SUCH BY SEBASTIANO CARDINAL BAGGIO ON 8 DEC. 1982.

MSGR. BENITO P. SISON, FIRST RECTOR; MSGR. JOSE G. TONGSON, PRESENT RECTOR; TOMAS M. ASPRER, PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR; JOSE LUIS M. ASPIRAS, MUNICIPAL MAYOR; IGNACIO PALMA BAUTISTA, ARCHITECT; BERNARDO M. VERGARA, EDMUNDO TOLENTINO, JOSE MANANTAN AND BERNABE CORPUZ, SUPERVISING ENGINEERS.

Bacsil Ridge

NHCP File

NHCP File

Location: San Fernando, La Union (Region I)
Category: Sites/Events
Type: Ridge
Status: Level II - Historical marker
Marker date: 1958

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

CONVERTED INTO A MOUNTAIN BASTION BACSIL RIDGE CONSTITUTED THE EAST FLANK OF THE JAPANESE LINE ESTABLISHED IN MID-JANUARY 1945 AT THE NORTH SIDE OF SAN FERNANDO , LA UNION. SUBJECTED TO SEVERAL CONCERTED ATTACKS BY ELEMENTS OF THE 121ST INFANTRY, UASAFIP, NL. BACSIL WAS FINALLY TAKEN ON 21 MARCH 1945, AND THREE DAYS LATER THE TOWN-PORT OF SAN FERNANDO, LA UNION WAS LIBERATED.

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.

Parola ng Poro Point

NHCP Photo Collection, 2006

NHCP Photo Collection, 2006

Location: San Fernando, La Union (Region I)
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: Lighthouse
Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: January 28, 2008

Installed by: National Historical Institute (NHI)

Marker text:

ANG PAROLA NG PORO POINT

IPINATAYO ANG PAROLANG GAWA SA BAKAL NA MAY LAMPARANG GAAS AYON SA DISENYO NG SAUTTER, ISANG KUMPANYANG PRANSES, 1885. IPINATAYO ANG PABELYON SA DISENYO NI JOSE FERNANDEZ PARA SA TAGAPAG-ALAGA NG PAROLA, 1886. IPINAHAYAG NI GOV. GEN. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT ANG POOK NA KINATATAYUAN NG PAROLA BILANG U.S. RESERVATION AT GINAWANG KONGKRETO ANG LUMANG PABELYON, 1903. ITINAYO ANG BAGONG PAROLANG KONGKRETO, 1979.