Don Placido Escudero Dam

NHCP Photo Collection, 2022

NHCP Photo Collection, 2022

NHCP Photo Collection, 2022

NHCP Photo Collection, 2022

Location: Villa Escudero, Kilometer 91, Pan-Philippine Highway, Tiaong, Quezon

Category: Buildings/Structures

Type: Structure, Dam

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1938

Installed by: Historical Research and Markers Committee

Marker text:

DON PLACIDO ESCUDERO DAM

DON CIRIACO NADRES, DULY AUTHORIZED BY THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT, CONSTRUCTED HERE IN 1872 A DAM OF ADOBE STONE AND LIME MORTAR FOR IRRIGATING HIS LAND ON THIS SIDE OF THE BROOK. DON HERMENEGILDO, HIS SON, SOLD THE PROPERTY IN 1890 TO DON PLACIDO ESCUDERO AND HIS WIFE, DOÑA CLAUDIA MARASIGAN, WHO IN 1904 RECONSTRUCTED THIS DAM WITH HARD STONE AND CEMENT MORTAR. THEIR ONLY SON DON ARSENIO AND DOÑA ROSARIO ADAP, HIS WIFE, REBUILT THIS DAM IN 1937 FOR IRRIGATION, AND FOR THE HYDRO-ELECTRIC PLANT, SUPPLYING POWER AND LIGHT TO THE “COOPERATIVE COCONUT PRODUCTS, INC.”, AND TO “VILLA ESCUDERO”.

Villa Escudero

NHCP Photo Collection, 2022

NHCP Photo Collection, 2022

NHCP Photo Collection, 2022

NHCP Photo Collection, 2022

NHCP Photo Collection, 2022

NHCP Photo Collection, 2022

Location: Villa Escudero, Kilometer 91, Pan-Philippine Highway, Tiaong, Quezon

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: June 3, 1984

Installed by: National Historical Institute (NHI)

Marker text (Filipino):

VILLA ESCUDERO

SUMASAKOP SA MALAWAK NA LUPAING BAHAGI NG LUNGSOD NG SAN PABLO SA LAGUNA AT MGA BAYAN NG TIAONG AT DOLORES SA QUEZON. NABILI NOONG 1880 NI PLACIDO ESCUDERO, ISANG KASTILANG ASAWA NI CLAUDIA MARASIGAN. DITO NIYA KINUPKOP ANG MGA MANGHIHIMAGSIK LABAN SA MGA KASTILA AT AMERIKANO NOONG 1897–1901. DITO RIN PINATULOY NI ARSENIO, KANYANG ANAK AT ASAWA NI ROSARIO ADAP, ANG MARAMING KAWAL PILIPINO AT AMERIKANO NANG UMURONG BUHAT TIMOG NOONG 1941 AT TUMUNGO SA BATAAN; GAYUNDIN ANG MARAMI SA KANILA NANG TUMALILIS SA BATAAN. DITO PA RIN BINUO NI ARSENIO ANG ISANG PULUTONG NG MGA GERILYA LABAN SA HAPON NOONG 1942. SA PAGKUPKOP NG MAG-AMA SA MGA SUNDALO SILA’Y DINAKIP AT PINAHIRAPAN NG KANI-KANILANG KAAWAY. ISANG MAKASAYSAYANG VILLA NG KALAYAAN NOONG PANAHON NG KASTILA, AMERIKANO AT HAPON.

Marker text (English):

VILLA ESCUDERO

OCCUPYING A VAST TRACT OF LAND THAT IS PART OF SAN PABLO CITY IN LAGUNA AND THE TOWNS OF TIAONG AND DOLORES IN QUEZON, VILLA ESCUDERO WAS PURCHASED IN 1880 BY PLACIDO ESCUDERO, A SPANIARD, AND HIS WIFE CLAUDIA MARASIGAN. IT SERVED AS A SANCTUARY TO THE REVOLUTIONIST AGAINST THE SPANIARDS AND THE AMERICANS, 1897–1901. ARSENIO ESCUDERO AND HIS WIFE ROSARIO ADAP PROVIDED REFUGE TO FILIPINO AND AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO RETREATED FROM THE SOUTH AND PROCEEDED TO BATAAN IN 1941. FOR ORGANIZING A GROUP OF GUERILLAS WHO FOUGHT AGAINST THE JAPANESE IN 1942, BOTH PLACIDO AND ARSENIO ESCUDERO WERE ARRESTED AND TORTURED BY THE ENEMY. A HISTORICAL VILLA OF FREEDOM DURING THE SPANISH, AMERICAN AND JAPANESE OCCUPATION.

The Philippine Assembly

Location: Batasang Pambansa Complex, Batasan Road, Batasan Hills, Quezon City

Category: Association/Institution/Organization 

Type: Institutional marker

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 2007

Installed by: National Historical Institute (NHI)

Marker text:

THE PHILIPPINE ASSEMBLY

INAUGURATED AT THE MANILA GRAND OPERA HOUSE BY WILLIAM H. TAFT, SECRETARY OF WAR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THE PHILIPPINE ASSEMBLY HELD ITS FIRST SESSION AT THE AYUNTAMIENTO DE MANILA ON 16 OCTOBER 1907. THE 80-MEMBER ASSEMBLY ELECTED SERGIO OSMEÑA AS ITS SPEAKER, MANUEL L. QUEZON AS ITS MAJORITY LEADER, AND VICENTE SINGSON ENCARNACION AS ITS MINORITY LEADER. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ASSEMBLY IS THE REALIZATION OF THE FILIPINO PEOPLE’S ASPIRATION FOR SELF-DETERMINATION.

THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE FOUNDING OF THE PHILIPPINE ASSEMBLY WAS LAUNCHED ON 7 JUNE 2007 DURING THE TERM OF THE 236-MEMBER HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF SPEAKER JOSE C. DE VENECIA, JR., MAJORITY LEADER PROSPERO C. NOGRALES AND MINORITY LEADER FRANCIS JOSEPH G. ESCUDERO.

Salvador Escudero Sr. (1887-1978)

NHCP Photo Collection, 2020

NHCP Photo Collection, 2020

NHCP Photo Collection, 2020

NHCP Photo Collection, 2020

Location: Philippine National Police Provincial Headquarters, Sorsogon City

Category: Personages

Type: Biographical marker and monument

Status: Level II - Historical Marker

Marker date: 2020

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

Marker text:

SALVADOR ESCUDERO SR.

1887–1978

GERILYA AT LINGKOD-BAYAN. ISINILANG SA CASIGURAN, SORSOGON, 7 MARSO 1887. NANUNGKULAN BILANG KONSEHAL AT ALKALDE NG CASIGURAN, 1912. ITINALAGANG GOBERNADOR NG SORSOGON, 1941. PINAMUNUAN ANG ESCUDERO UNIT SA ILALIM NG SOUTHERN BICOL AREA COMMAND NOONG IKALAWANG DIGMAANG PANDAIGDIG. HINIRANG BILANG KORONEL AT PINUNO NG REHIMYENTO NG SORSOGON NA INATASANG ITATAG ANG FILIPINO-AMERICAN IRREGULAR TROOPS SA LALAWIGAN, 1943. LIHIM NA NAGPADALA NG IMPORMASYON SA MGA PUWERSANG AMERIKANO NOONG KASAGSAGAN NG IKALAWANG DIGMAANG PANDAIGDIG. NAHALAL NA GOBERNADOR AT PINAGTUUNAN ANG KAPAYAPAAN AT KAAYUSAN SA LALAWIGAN NG SORSOGON, 1946–1955. YUMAO, 27 DISYEMBRE 1978.