1905 The name Warwick Barracks, in honor of Capt. Oliver W. Warwick, an American killed by insurgents in Panay, is given to a camp established by the Americans in Cebu in March 1899. The camp is located in what is now Carbon Market. 1953 Vicente del Rosario ends his second term of office as Mayor […]
Tag: Mariano Mercado
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 […]