Tagaytay City History
Legend has it that the word Tagaytay came from "taga" meaning to cut and "itay" which means father. A father and son were said to be on a wild boar hunt when the animal they were chasing turned and attacked them. As the boar charged towards the old man, the son cried "taga itay!". The boy's repeated shout reverberated in the alleys of the ridge. Heard by the residents, hunters and wood gatherers, the cries became subject of conversation for several days in the countryside. In time, the place where the shouts came from became known as TAGAYTAY.
During the Philippine revolution of 1896, the ridges and forests of Tagaytay became the sanctuary for revolutionaries including those from nearby provinces. The passage to and from towns via Tagaytay added the word "mananagaytay" to the native's vocabulary. It means "to traverse ridges."
On February 3, 1945, the 11th Airborne Division of Lt. Gen. William Krueger's 8th Army performed a combat jump of the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment and associated elements on the ridge, with a drop zone around the Manila Hotel Annex, which had been cleared of Japanese forces by Filipino soldiers and recognized guerillas. To commemorate this event, a marker was installed in 1951 at the junction of Silang, Canlubang-Nasugbu roads by the city officials in coordination with the Philippine Historical Institute.
Timeline
* 1749 - destroyed the entire Volcano Island and the towns of Taal, old Sala and part of old Tanauan.
* 1754 - destroyed towns of Sala, Lipa, Tanauan and Talisay.
* 1911 - devastated Volcano Island; killed 1334 people; ashes reached Manila.
* 1965 - affected the entire Volcano Island; ashfall covered an area of 60km² killed 200 people.
* 1937 - Construction ensues on Tagaytay ridge. Taal Vista Lodge is built, to be run by the Manila Hotel Corporation. Cavite prisoners construct the long highway stretching from Silang up to the ridge. This is the continuation of the Aguinaldo Highway, named after the First President of the Republic of the Philippines, Emilio Aguinaldo.
* 1979 - First Lady Imelda Marcos brings a major change to the landscape: The Palace in the Sky is erected as a guesthouse for American President Ronald Reagan - who never arrived. Palace in the sky is now better known as the People's Park in the Sky.
* 1992 - Mayor Ben Erni built cement roads to the smaller barangays and erects the fruit arch on the city boundary to welcome investors.
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