Location: Lemery, Batangas
Category: Sites/Events
Type: Site
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 1952
Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)
Marker text:
MUNICIPALITY OF LEMERY
THE TOWN OF LEMERY WAS FOUNDED IN 1862 DURING THE ADMINISTRATION OF GOVERNOR GENERAL JOSE LEMERY. JOSE CABRERA WAS ITS FIRST GOBERNADORCILLO. OTHERS WERE MIGUEL AGONCILLO, ELENO ANIVERSARIO, BASILIO GATACHALIAN, MARIANO GENEROSO, PERPETUO ILUSTRE, MARIANO MARELLA, JUAN MEDINA, BRIGIDO MORALES, RAMON M. MITRA, RAMON NOBLE, VICTORIANO NOBLE, AGAPITO PANGANIBAN, AND PIOQUINTO REYES.
LEMERY WAS ANNEXED TO THE MUNICIPALITY OF TAAL IN 1904.
AGAIN BECAME A MUNICIPALITY IN 1907 WITH PERPETUO DE JOYA AS MUNICIPAL PRESIDENT.
THE ERUPTION OF NEARBY TAAL VOLCANO IN JANUARY 1911 KILLED HUNDREDS OF ITS INHABITANTS.
OCCUPIED BY THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL ARMY IN 1942. ONE THIRD OF THE TOWN WAS BURNT BY ENEMY ARTILLERY WHEN IT WAS LIBERATED BY THE AMERICANS AIDED BY FILIPINO GUERILLAS ON 6 MARCH 1945.
