General Mariano Alvarez ( GMA )

Brief History:


The municipality is named in honor of General Mariano Alvarez, the captain municipal of Noveleta when the Philippine Revolution broke out in August 1896. Alvarez led the assault on the Spanish garrison in Noveleta and captured the town's tribunal or municipal building on August 31, 1896, several days after the "Cry of Pugad Lawin". He was the first president and founder of the Magdiwang Council. President Carlos P. Garcia authorized the national government to purchase the barren land of General Mariano Alvarez in September 1961 from 10 different owners at a cost of P1,600,500.00 for the relocation of squatters, fire and flood victims from Manila and suburbs. Parliamentary Bill No. 631 was introduced in the Batasang Pambansa seeking the creation of the municipality of General Mariano Alvarez. Batas Pambansa Bilang 76 was approved on June 13, 1980 and a plebiscite was held on January 10, 1981 which ratified the law creating the new town. The barrios of San Juan and San Gabriel and a portion of Barangay Cabilang Baybay were declared through Proclamation No. 2033, in March 1986, as resettlement areas for the urban poor from the railways of Manila, Makati and Pasay and Quezon Memorial Park in Quezon City incorporating the said places into the new municipality of General Mariano Alvarez.
Source: The Phil Index, Millennium Edition Vol.I No.1


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