Tourism information on Silay City
SILAY: PARIS OF NEGROS – A ROMANCE IN HISTORY
1565. Carobcob, the first known settlement in Negros , serves as the
landmark and civilization in Silay. A village by the sea formerly situated
between the present Barangay Balaring proper and Sitio Bongol. The name
Carobcob was given by the Spaniards after the occupation of the people
living in the area. “Carobcob I native term meaning “to scratch.” The
villagers were dependent on scratching for “Tuway” shells which were
abundant in the shores. Carobcob was founded near the mouth of the creek.
To date nothing is left to the village. It was destroyed by typhoons.
Carobcob was granted as an encomienda to Cristobal Nuñez Paroja, one of the
17 soldiers of Miguel Lopez de Legaspi on January 25, 1571. In the second
half of the century pirates raids escalated forcing the corregidor of Negros
to adopt the policy of flight rather than resistance. People left their
homes sometimes in 1760 and settled in a new place between two small rivers,
Matagoy and Panaogao. Paloisades (Estacada) was constructed to protect them
from Moro Pirates. The place is now known as Sitio Estaca.
1760. Silay was founded as a town in a letter of Governor Juan Jose de
Mijares (1772-1775) mentioning Silay as a leading town in the North. In
1776, the bishop of Cebu considered Silay as the center of the Parish. The
town was named Silay because of the abundance of the Kansilay trees growing
in the area.
In 1873, Buen Retiro (Guinhalaran) was founded. The new town was 2
kilometers away from Silay. It was placed in definitive union with Silay in
1860. In 140, Fr. Eusebio Locsin encouraged his families in Iloilo to
settle in Silay because of the promising sugar industry.
In 1846, Gaston Yves Leopold Germaine from Normandy , Frane who married a
Filipina from Batangas installed the first “Horno Economico” (sugar mill) in
Buen Retiro. He planted Habana and Puerto Rico sugar cane which he himself
brought from French Isles of Mauritius and Bourbonne.
In 1860, Simeon Ledesma and Juan Hidalgo arrived in Silay and established
haciendas at Bagacay. In the later years other families from Iloilo
followed Locsins, de la Rama, and Jalandonis. Crown lands later were
purchased by Filipinos (1885-1892), Vicente Conlu, Crescenciano Araneta,
Severo de la Rama, Anecito Montelibano, Mariano de la Rama, Santiago Suanico,
Evaristo Yemo, Isidro Hilado, Bernabe Morlidad and Meliton Cañas.
For more information about Silay
City click on the link below:
http://www.silaycity.gov.ph/Silay-History.html
source:
http://www.silaycity.gov.ph/Silay-History.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silay_City
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