Sunday, February 3, 2019

History of Barangay Dusoc, Bayambang, Pangasinan



HISTORY OF BARANGAY DUSOC

A long time ago, our Barangay of Dusoc was just a sitio of Barangay Wawa. According to our great-great-grandparents in the Barangay, this place was called Sitio Tumao. In fact, there is a place here still being called by that name. It is a low part of land which is now located at the boundary of Barangay Darawey.
According to our very old grandparents in the barangay, Dusoc was just a forest and no one liked to stay or build a home here because the presence of wild animals made it too dangerous a place to stay. But there was one old man whose source of living was hunting and farming. He built a small hut in this forest and brought his family there where they stayed together.
One day, a group of Spaniards came asking what the name of the place was, and because the old man could not understand them because his language was Ilocano, he said, “Ditoy sucsoc,” which means “This place is a forest.”
From that time on, people called our Barangay “Barrio Dusoc.”


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