4. Town known as Gentle People
Dumaguete 1900s Banica River
5. Photo Courtesy
• Penn Larena,CPS,MPA
• Serafin D. Teves III
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6. Spanish Period
• General Valeriano Weyler
Don Valeriano Weyler y
Nicolau, Marquis of Tenerife,
Duke of Rubí, Grandee of
Spain, (September 17, 1838
– October 20, 1930) was a
Spanish general, and
Governor General of the
Philippines and Cuba. He
was noted for his
Reconcentración policy[1] of
interning peasants under
deplorable conditions.
9. Liberator from Spanish Rule
• Don Diego R. de la Vina
• Born on May 20, 1849 in Binondo, Manila,
Diego de la Viña was known as a
powerful
• cacique, a disciplinarian, and “Tamer” of
the Bukidnons of Negros. Both his parents
belonged to
• affluent families. His father, Diego de la
Viña y Balbin, was an engineer from
Oviedo, Asturias,
• Spain, while his mother Damiana de la
Rosa was a Chinese mestiza. On many
occasions, he signed
• his name as Diego de la Viña y de la Rosa
to distinguish himself from his father.
• He was reared in the wealthy district of
Binondo. After his studies in the Escuela
Superior
• in Manila, he was sent to Spain. He entered
his father’s alma mater, the University of
Oviedo in
• the Basque province of Asturias, where he
graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
10. Early Sugar Traders of Dumaguete
The man sitting in the center is Joaquin
Montenegro, one of the very first pioneers
of Negros. picture taken in 1890 Photo by :
Miguel Alvarez Tan Bindo Regis Villanueva
26. Martial Law Era
• The poet Cesar Ruiz Aquino
tells the story of being the
first workshopper: “We
were a very young college
boy when we came to
Dumaguete for the first
time in the summer
National Summer Worshop
27. Martial Law Literature
• Elsa Martinez
Coscolluela is an
award-winning
Filipina poet, short-story
writer, and
playwright.In 1999
she was instilled as a
Hall of Famer in the
Palanca Awards.