BARANGAY WARDING
Prior to World War II (18th century),
the barangay was a forest so thick that no one attempted to live here. Later, a
group of Filipinos decided to live here because of its considerable distance
from the center of the town. They thought that the ruling Spaniards could no
longer reach the place. It became their hideout from the Spaniards, as they dug
a hole to serve as their temporary shelter.
This group of people had been thinking of the
name to call the place, but the new inhabitants could not think of something to
call it.
One day, a group of Spaniards reached the
place by accident and saw a kind of animal roaming around eating the grasses.
They asked a resident of the place what the name of the beasts was, and he
answered in their Ilocano language, “Kalding.” One of the Spaniards repeated
the word, but he mispronounced it into “warding.” From then on, the place is
named Warding.
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