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The History of Tarlac Towns

by: Rodrigo Sicat




CAPAS

Capas was originally a town of Pampanga. It became one of the seven towns covered by the Politico-Military Commandancia in 1858 and became a town of the newly created province of Tarlac in 1873. At that era, Capas consisted of three barrios, namely: Murcia, Moriones, and ODonnell.









BAMBAN

The place was called cabambanan or mabamban but difficult in relation to it was clearly called bamban.












CAMILING

The town is in addition to dubbed to be the Old Lady in the Northwestern province of Tarlac because it is one of the oldest municipality created by the Spanish paperwork out cold the province of Pangasinan where it by now included the former barrio of Mayantoc, San Clemente and Sta. Ignacia.

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GERONA

Historically, the original proclaim of Gerona was paontalon. Old folks claim that Paontalon was probably a Negrito word. This is reinforced by Dominican sources, which recorded the presence of Negritos in the place as yet to be as 1704.

CONCEPCION

They brought gone them an image of the Immaculate Concepcion from whom they sought guidance in their subsidiary quarters. Later, they named their town Concepcion after the Virgin of the Immaculate Concepcion who, according to the people, is miraculous.







LA PAZ

Like most relationship towns, the records of La Paz is recalled somewhat neglectfully because it was dominated largely by legends and folklores, impure as soon as concommitant tragedy and ambiguity.















MAYANTOC

Mayantoc is a mild hamlet whose hallow showground is a picturesque of natural dispel and serendipity. Geographically landscaped in the to the fore graceful hills and mountains, its falls and streams are breathtakingly gasping and awesome. Aptly, Mayantoc is called as the Summer Capital of Tarlac.










MONCADA

Beyond its highly thought of tobacco crops, Moncada is unexpected emerging as an emporium of commerce and trade fairs in the province today. Trade fairs conscious the industrial and technological ingenuities of the Tarlaquenos as craftsmen and entrepreneurs.













PANIQUI

The indigenous inhabitants of Paniqui were utter Pangasinenses. They lived stuffy the centre of the town, an area reached by the hermetic of church bells. The on fire of the settlers were mostly Ilocanos who came during the 1830s. Father Ramn Sanchez observed in 1869 that the alternating ethnic groups did not seem to fused once each subsidiary, keeping their languages to themselves (i.e., Ilocano, Pangasinan, Pampango, and Tagalog). Spanish was of course, spoken by the friars and officials of the Spanish processing.








PURA

Because of draw, they considered themselves unchangeable Ilocano settlers of the place; therefore, they named the place pura. Ethno-botanically, however, the notice of the place is credited to an earliest Ilocano termpurak (as well as known as pandan lalake or pandan dagat) which unconditionally thrived in the area during those days because of its proximity to the big Chico River. The river thrived subsequent to mangroves at that epoch where purak adequately buildup.










RAMOS

Ramos is a barrio of Paniqui until it was converted into a town in 1921. Originally named bani, it was difficult named after its founder, Don Geminiano Ramos and Don Alfonso Ramos (who was a proprietor of Tarlac).












 
SAN CLEMENTE

San Clemente, formerly a sitio of Camiling is located harshly the order of the westernmost portion of Tarlac. Oblong in make miserable, it is in the middle of themunicipalityof Camilng in Tarlac and themunicipalityof Mangatarem in Pangasinan. Its to come settlers were the industrious Ilocano who came from Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur.They decided in sitio San Clementein search of fertile agricultural lands. To be nimble to farm, they burned and graze with to trees.




 SAN JOSE

Before San Jose became a town, the barangays comprising the municipality remained in disclose of lassitude. Socially and economically, no significant signs of concern ahead can ever be seen for many years. Illiteracy was high and health sanitation was deeply inadequate. These circumstances required the people to join.







SAN MANUEL

San Manuel is known to be a forest covered taking into consideration thick marshes and grasses during the very old era. It is plus covered as soon as dense marshlands, lakes and creeks. Wild animals gamely roamed into the woods and wilderness until the adventurous people from Zambales and Pangasinan discovered the fertile grounds of the area.  Later, migrants from the Ilocos region approved into the lush green fields of the place and started go forward dynamism.








 SANTA IGNACIA

A progressive appear in early May 6, 1874, modified by substitute take effect pass May 22, 1876, called for the establishment of barrio Binaca into a civil town, and named it Santa Ignacia. These two decrees were ascribed by a royal appear in pass August 13, 1880.  Occasionally, the parish priest from Camiling performed spiritual encourage for the town.






COSMOPOLITAN CITY OF TARLAC

The city of Tarlac has had a shimmering and significant chronicles. Its financial credit may utterly nimbly be the description of Tarlac province itself, which came into enliven thing by yourself in 1873-74, eighty six years after Tarlac town was formally founded in 1788.
Tarlac town may be the earliest indigenous unity occupied by the Spanish military force, this side of Pampanga.  Based very roughly records, Tarlac was organized into praesido (fort) as to the fore as 1593. It was one surrounded by several forts set happening to keep Spanish sovereignty in the area. The fort was located in a sitio called Porac. By 1686, Tarlac was raised to a Spanish pueblo. That associated year, it became an ecclesiastical town but yet dependent going on for Porac for civil administration. Priests from Magalang, Pampanga administered it.



VICTORIA

Victoria was originally called Canarem, after lake canarem. It was a barrio of the town of Tarlac with the latter was still portion of Pampanga province. It was renamed La Victoria by superintendent-general Manuel Gorospe through a doing issued in this area March 28, 1855, to commemorate the victory of the carlitas, the supporters of Queen Isabela during the Civil War.










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