LABOR DAY 1521 The remnants of the Magellan expedition hurriedly leave Cebu in the wake of the death of Ferdinand Magellan in Mactan and the attempted massacre of Spanish crew members by Cebuanos. 1913 The first issue of Kauswagan (1913-1915), a Cebu newspaper published and edited by J.R. Flynn Anderson, hits the streets.
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Center receives recognition during the Don Mariano Awards 2013
Last September 8, 2013 was the 136th birth anniversary of Mariano Avila Mercado, mayor of Carcar in the 1920s. During his administration, Mercado built the Carcar Dispensary, formerly health center before and after the war and is now a museum, the swimming pool just behind the dispensary which served as American soldiers’ recreation area, the […]