National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures in the Philippines: Port of Iloilo

Location: Iloilo City

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 29 September 1975

Installed by: National Historical Institute (NHI)

Marker text:

PORT OF ILOILO

OPENED INTERNATIONAL TRADE BY ROYAL ORDER OF THE SUPREME SPANISH GOVERNMENT ON 29 SEPTEMBER 1855. NICHOLAS LONEY, FIRST BRITISH VICE-CONSUL AND FIRST FOREIGN MERCHANT IN ILOILO, LANDED AT THIS PORT ON 31 JULY 1856. VISITED BY SIR JOHN BOWRING, GOVERNOR OF HONGKONG, IN 1859. THE FIRST DIRECT EXPORTATION, CONSISTING OF 270 TONS OF SUGAR, WAS SHIPPED ON THE RIG PET TO MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, ON 2 MARCH 1859, AND THE FIRST DIRECT IMPORTATION, CONSISTING OF SUGAR MILL MACHINERIES, CAME ON THE HENRY DARLING FROM GLASGOW, GREAT BRITAIN, IN 1863.

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LEVEL I - Sites and Structures declared as National Shrine, National Historical Landmark, National Historical Site, and National Monument (Entries with asterisks)

LEVEL II - Sites and Structures declared as Heritage Zones/Historic Centers, Heritage Houses and bearing Historical Markers

DELISTED - Declared and/or marked historic sites and structures that were removed from the national registry

LIFTED - Sites and structures 50 years old and above removed of its presumption as Important Cultural Property (R.A. 10066)

Port of Iloilo

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