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Marikina’s Historical Places and Events
Part 4: The Cows in the Dairy Farm
Posted by mhel in about marikina, travel on November 10th, 2007
Marikina Heights’ residents today enjoy the stone built cows placed by the city government in their park called the Evolution park. About 18 cows were sculptured and now stands as a marker of what was once the only grazing farm in Marikina.
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Marikina’s Historical Places and Events
Part 3: The Kapitan Moy Building
Posted by mhel in about marikina, travel on November 9th, 2007
The 200 year-old residence of Don Laureano Guevara, better known as Kap. Moy and considered the founder of the country’s footwear industry, has been cited as a historical place by the National Historical Commission. Kap Moy’s house was the first to cater shoe manufacturing in town.
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Pinay Scandal… in the Mind of Pinays.
Pinay Scandal! Indeed is searchable in the internet today because of the magnanimous information containing malicious contents. Websites are selling Filipinas, and sadly, for sex and porn.
Just an hour ago, before I read this blog by marhgil, I was thinking of putting in my site the words “proudly marikenya” because I thought, as a Filipina, I am a proud Pinay but locally, I am a proud Marikina girl. Thinking of those porn links that will pop out of google when you type the words pinay scandal, should I think twice before I proclaim myself as a proud pinay?
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Marikina’s Historical Places and Events
Part 1: Shoe Museum
Posted by mhel in about marikina on November 5th, 2007
The author was the head writer of the souvenir booklet of one of the city’s festivities where these historical bits were published.
Marikina is indeed an interesting place with an even more interesting history. The then Marikina Mayor Bayani F. Fernando, now Chairman of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority [MMDA], a true-blooded marikeno whose passion for the city is overwhelming, traced and marked the history places of the city so everyone can marvel how Marikina came to be.
Join me in in walking down the steps of my beloved city’s memory lane…
The Marikina Shoe Museum, the only one in the country, used to be a bigasang bayan [rice mill] owned by affluent family of Doña Teresa dela Paz,
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Hacienda de Mariquina, A Noble Estate. The History of Marikina and the Ancestral Clans.
Posted by mhel in about marikina, travel on October 31st, 2007
From Mariquina to Marikina… from a family hacienda to a highly-urbanized city.
The Hacienda de San Isidro de Mariquina, so named by the Jesuits to affirm the dignity of labor and to enlist the cooperation of workers, was one of the biggest land estates in the Philippines at the end of the 1700′s. It gained prominence when it was declared a mayorazgo (noble estate) on August 20, 1794, by the order of the King of Spain. Another 80 years, the mayorazgo came under the administration of an intelligent, strong-willed Marikenya known in History as Dona Teresa dela Paz.
The noble estate, created to “defend and sustain the privileges which His Majesty has been pleased to grant me… and to show my gratitude for such a unique favor…” was the brainchild of Don Antonio Tuazon of Binondo, a Chinese mestizo who made his fortune through the Galleon Trade. Don Antonio was elevated to the Spanish nobility by Royal Decree for his services to the Spanish Crown, first against the English invaders of Manila (1762-64) and later, the Muslims. Thus, his name was changed from Son Tua to Tuason. But he soon died to benefit from the mayorazgo.
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