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 Municipality
Of E.B Magalona |
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The town was named Saravia
after the first Spanish military governor of Negros, Don
Emilio Saravia (1856-1858). The original inhabitants of the
place were Negritoes who were gradually driven to the
mountains by settlers who came to make their permanent homes
in choice lands specially in the present poblacion.
The first group of settlers in the town came from
Albuquerque, Bohol. They were led by Florentino Rubiate who
became the first "Cabeza de Barangay" of the place then
called "Tugbawan", located between the rivers of Madalag
Pequeña and Madalag Grande.
The exact date of the creation of Saravia into a
municipality is rather controversial. A Spanish chronicler
mentioned in his "Apuntos de la Isla de Negros" that Saravia
was created into a town in 1858. However, another Spanish
chronicler in his "Resena Historica de Negros" recorded
Saravia’s conversion into a municipality in 1880.
It is however safe to assume that Saravia became a
municipality in 1889, when Recollect priest Fr. Pedro Lago
took over the Administration of Saravia.
The first Capitan Municipal of the town was Santiago Reyes.
He was succeeded by Carlos Magalona, who, with his brother
Vicente, father of ex-senator Enrique Magalona with whom the
town was named after, alternated over the position for the
next 15 years.
House Bill 511 authored by the late Congressman Armando
Gustilo changed the name of Saravia into E. B. Magalona on
August 19, 1967. |
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