Don Placido Escudero Dam

NHCP Photo Collection, 2022

Location: Tiaong, Quezon

Category: Buildings/Structures

Type: Structure, Dam

Status: Level II – Historical marker

Marker Date: 1938

Installed By: Historical Research and Markers Committee

DON PLACIDO ESCUDERO DAM

DON CIRIACO NADRES, DULY AUTHORIZED BY THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT, CONSTRUCTED HERE IN 1872 A DAM OF ADOBE STONE AND LIME MORTAR FOR IRRIGATING HIS LAND ON THIS SIDE OF THE BROOK. DON HERMENEGILDO, HIS SON, SOLD THE PROPERTY IN 1890 TO DON PLACIDO ESCUDERO AND HIS WIFE, DOÑA CLAUDIA MARASIGAN, WHO IN 1904 RECONSTRUCTED THIS DAM WITH HARD STONE AND CEMENT MORTAR. THEIR ONLY SON DON ARSENIO AND DOÑA ROSARIO ADAP, HIS WIFE, REBUILT THIS DAM IN 1937 FOR IRRIGATION, AND FOR THE HYDRO-ELECTRIC PLANT, SUPPLYING POWER AND LIGHT TO THE “COOPERATIVE COCONUT PRODUCTS, INC.”, AND TO “VILLA ESCUDERO”.

Tags: 1938, Buildings/Structures, Dam, Don Placido Escudero Dam, Level II, Quezon, Region IV-A