Location: Villa Escudero, Kilometer 91, Pan-Philippine Highway, Tiaong, Quezon
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: Structure, Dam
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 1938
Installed by: Historical Research and Markers Committee
Marker text:
DON PLACIDO ESCUDERO DAM
DON CIRIACO NADRES, DULY AUTHORIZED BY THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT, CONSTRUCTED HERE IN 1872 A DAM OF ADOBE STONE AND LIME MORTAR FOR IRRIGATING HIS LAND ON THIS SIDE OF THE BROOK. DON HERMENEGILDO, HIS SON, SOLD THE PROPERTY IN 1890 TO DON PLACIDO ESCUDERO AND HIS WIFE, DOÑA CLAUDIA MARASIGAN, WHO IN 1904 RECONSTRUCTED THIS DAM WITH HARD STONE AND CEMENT MORTAR. THEIR ONLY SON DON ARSENIO AND DOÑA ROSARIO ADAP, HIS WIFE, REBUILT THIS DAM IN 1937 FOR IRRIGATION, AND FOR THE HYDRO-ELECTRIC PLANT, SUPPLYING POWER AND LIGHT TO THE “COOPERATIVE COCONUT PRODUCTS, INC.”, AND TO “VILLA ESCUDERO”.
