:: Municipality of San Remegio ::
Oral tradition has it that a settlement called TIGBAGACAY was founded by a famous warrior and hunter named JUAN ARANGOTE. He and his family constituted the first settlers in this place. The passage of time saw the influx of other settlers and the transformation of the place into the Village. In 1797, TIGBAGACAY was politically established as a barrio and consequently appeared in the map as part of the Municipality of Sibalom. It adopted San Vicente Ferrer as its patron saint.
On July 1, 1864 TIGBAGACAY was elevated to municipality and was given the name SAN REMIGIO after a Spanish Officer named REMIGIO MULTO. The village, now a town, was divided into two barrios called BALADJAY and VILVAR in honor of Agustin Baladjay and Basilio Vilvar who worked for the separation of the town from Sibalom.
Located at the alluvial valley of the big Sibalom River, the young municipality waged a long and losing battle against the relentless onslaught of this merciless river whose seasonal encroachment usually brought grave destruction to infrastructure and private property. Therefore, the move to transfer the site of the Poblacion was initiated. The various resolutions adopted by the Municipal Council recommending the transfer of the town site were officially approved by Hon. Francis Burton Harrison, Governor General of the Philippines at that time, through Executive Order No. 74. Series of 1919. Thus on October 13, 1931, the township was transferred to Calag-itan, its present site. The former site, officially the barrios of Baladjay and Vilvar, is now referred to as Old Town.
(Reprinted from the Binirayan 2000 Souvenir Magazine)
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