A ROAD TRIP TO MAYUMO (HOUSES THAT DATE BACK TO HISTORY)!

     Kuya Bobot Tecson, the grandson of Simon Tecson, a  noted  war hero of San Miguel, called me up for a trip to San Miguel, Bulacan. For whatever reason, I was made to join, along with Ate  Nerie, Kuya Gilbert and wife on the road through a town I only knew then was filled with memories of the past. The past that made San Miguel used to be known if only one should be serious enough to date back what had happened to people, places and most likely of houses where doors should only be unlocked to reveal the richness of history piled therein.

    Come open each door of old houses, take the road where ancestors of San Migueleños onced traveled and places where they had built their dreams. Houses, roads, and places-remnants of the way they lived, how they fall and how they triumphed. Truly it was a short trip to San Miguel de Mayumo, and a quick look on links to History.

                                         Brief History

San Miguel de Mayumo was originally a Visita of Candaba, Pampanga founded in 1607. It became an independent parish in 1725.
In 1726, San Miguel de Mayumo was aggregated to Gapan, Nueva Ecija as a visita,
On May 17, 1848 it was annexed from Pampanga.
San Miguel de Mayumo becane independent from Macabebe in 
1872.

 The town's present Church of St. Michael the Archangel, built (or rebuilt) in 1848 by Fr. Juan M. Tombo, was completed in 1869 by Fr. Francisco Arriola.  It was restored many times and its painted ceiling on the nave and dome was done by Italian artist Alberoni. In 1941, the entire roof over the nave collapsed during the bombing of the San Miguel Bridge by Japanese forces during the onset of World War II. The statue of St. Michael the Archangel slaying the dragon, said to have been found in Madlum Cave, is located at the center panel of the pediment which is topped by a bell tower.  The magnificent and massive convent, built by Frs. Tomba, Arriola and Ortiz, currently serves as the San Miguel Catholic Institute.

"Simon Tecson House"

Located at San Vicente, SAn Miguel. The original house was built through the effort of Doña Tomasa Mossessgeld Santiago at Tecson's land. Burned during Cholera Outbread, and later the youngest Tecson took owner of the house.
One of the Tecson's grandson is pointing out a secred window's exit whenever he's not allowed to go out!

        

        Here, Kuya Bobot is showing the particular place where the members of the alleged oppressors of Spaniards tied on a pole and let die in the middle of the heat of the sun and let suffered the wrath of angry Spaniards so that others may see.

The Mossesgeld House, in Brgy. San Vicente, was formerly owned by the father of Jose Mossesgeld

        The 3-storey Don Catalino Sevilla Mansion, along Tecson St., Brgy. San Vicente, was the venue of the Celia Club, remembered as a grand social affair of the “Who’s Who” in the country.  During World War II, it was the headquarters of the Japanese Army.

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The Machine Gun House

Mason Temple

Mateo Tecson House

Believe to be the house of the "Hilot" who gave birth of most of the Barangays children during that day.

Narcisa (Doña Sisang) de leon;s House. Doña Sisang, known to be the mother of Philippine Movies and the owner of LVN Studios.

The oldest house in Mayumo

The Payawal House

The Siojo House

      The Damaso-Sempio House had Gens. Gregorio del Pilar (Sempio's nephew) and Artemio Ricarte as overnight guests. For a while, del Pilar’s saber, boots and his unit’s flag were kept in the house (later donated to the provincial government). The house also has life-size, century-old mannequins of Christ’s 12 Apostles.  They are paraded during Holy Week.