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==History of Floridablanca, Pampanga, Philippines== | ==History of Floridablanca, Pampanga, Philippines== | ||
The | Before Floridablanca was founded, there were in existence within the area villages on land settlements called “hacienda”. Religious activities centered in the chapel of the hacienda under a Spanish Priest called a “capellan”. It was then presumed that the seat of the local government was also in the hacienda. Documented records indicated that since 1823 there had already been a chapel with a Capellan in the “HACIENDA DE SAN JOSE DE CALAMPAUI”. Apparently, this hacienda was the forerunner of the town, we now call Floridablanca. This proven by the entries of the Capellanes until 1867 showing that “Hacienda de San Jose de Calampaui” was renamed in the same year as “PUEBLO DE FLORIDABLANCA”. | ||
How the municipality got this name could not be historically verified. There were two versions as to how the town got its name. The first version related that the town derived its name after that of the “CONDE DE FLORIDABLANCA” in the person of Don Jose MAnino (1728-1808), an outstanding political figure during his time, who visited the place before the foundation of this municipality. | |||
The other version is more of a legend, beautiful and accepted by the elders of the town who learned it from their forebears. The legend woven around the town’s name was the arrival of Fr. Jose Hernandez, OSA at the location of the towns where the present church now stands and knows then as “MANGGANG PUNGLOD”. He was greatly impressed by the beauty of the place, as he found endless fields of blooming white flowers of the “PALAT” and “PANDACAQUI”, two species of the flora. Confronted with the problem of giving a new name to the locality, the good friar wittingly called the place “FLORIDABLANCA” meaning white flowers. To this day, the place has been known by this beautiful name. | |||
:article copied verbatim from: http://www.floridablanca.gov.ph/ | |||
==People of Floridablanca, Pampanga, Philippines== | ==People of Floridablanca, Pampanga, Philippines== | ||