THE American officer who captured Col. Apolinar Velez in Opol on January 4, 1901 was Capt. Sidney A. Cloman, who then became the military governor of Jolo Province.  Read More →

Cagayan de Oro’s Lumbia Airport’s days are now numbered as all air transport service shifts to Laguindingan Airport on April 30, 2013.  Read More →

THE month of March has several significant historical events that are virtually unknown to many, save one World War II occurrence that is now enshrined in a memorial in Macabalan.  Read More →

Here’s a very rare photo of the late Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay (center) with Senator Emmanuel Pelaez (Magsaysay’s right) and Misamis Oriental Governor Vicente De Lara.  Read More →

Most of the streets in Cagayan de Oro were named after heroes, former mayors and officials. But have you ever wondered to whom Abellanosa Street is named?  Read More →

ANTONIO Pigafetta, the Italian chronicler of Ferdinand Magellan, described the 1521 typical house of the Cebuanos as “constructed of wood and are built of planks and bamboo, raised high on the ground on large logs, and one must enter them by means of ladders. They have rooms like ours; and under the house, they keep swine, goats, and fowls” (Pigafetta c. 1536).  Read More →

In 1912, Fr. Arnalot, a Spanish Jesuit, invited the Sisters of the Compania de la Virgen Maria, the first indigenous congregation for women in the country, to teach in a parochial school in Cagayan de Misamis (now Cagayan de Oro). The Sisters taught the parish kindergarten and catechism classes. Later, the Sisters opened a dormitory for girls, named Santa Teresita Dormitory.  Read More →

On February 2, 1998, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 owned by Cebu Pacific Air crashed on the slopes of Mount Sumagaya in Claveria, Misamis Oriental, killing all 104 people on board. The crash was one of the deadliest aviation accidents in the Philippines.  Read More →

ANTONIO Pigafetta, the Italian chronicler of Ferdinand Magellan, described the 1521 typical house of the Cebuanos as “constructed of wood and are built of planks and bamboo, raised high on the ground on large logs, and one must enter them by means of ladders. They have rooms like ours; and under the house, they keep swine, goats, and fowls” (Pigafetta c. 1536).  Read More →

In Cagayan de Oro, the Philippine flag was raised by the five-man Concejo Provincial with then Municipal Head Toribio Chaves y Roa reciting the poem “Pinahanungod” on January 10, 1899.  Read More →

KAUSWAGAN is one of the most prosperous barangays in Cagayan de Oro today.  Read More →

I chanced upon this old aerial photo of pre-war Cagayan de Oro posted by Elson Elizaga at facebook. This interests me as this is perhaps one of the oldest aerial (with the camera shot almost perpendicular to the city).  Read More →