Pansol

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Barangay: Pansol
District: 3rd
City: Quezon

Pansol in Spanish times to the Commonwealth era was a sitio of Balara, a barrio of Marikina, Rizal.

The sitio was sparsely populated with small scale farming and a cottage industry of footwear making as the main sources of livelihood.

The people of Marikina used to refer to Pansol as “bundok (mountain) or “ulat” a corruption of the word “ulap” (cloud) as the place was almost always covered with mist or ground fog in the early mornings and late afternoons throughout the year.

The area was almost farm fields. The largest plantation was of sugar cane owned by the Tuazon Family. Sugar cane fields in the area feed the sugar cane mill to produce muscovado sugar. These farm fields were irrigated through a natural spring located in an area called Boliran. Its water never ran out and was also used by the residents for their daily household needs.

Other natural springs are found also in a nearby low mountain fondly called, “Payong” resembling an opened umbrella. These springs could have been the source of Pansol after Pansol, laguna known for its natural springs.

The barrio was administered through a “Cabeza de Barangay” who was popularly designated by consensus usually schooled and a man of means.

Pansol’s population increased due mainly to migrants. The earliest, were the work forces that extended the Carriedo Water Supply System (1878) through developmental projects such as: the Marikina River development – Montalban System (1908 – 1924), the Angat – Montalban System (1924 – 1944) and the post World War II projects, (1945 – 1964).

Many of the families residing in Pansol now are descendants of these work forces.

This influx was followed during the liberation of Metro Manila from the Japanese occupation forces. Families from the nearby towns of Marikina particularly from Montalban evacuated to Pansol to avoid the dangers of bombardment by American forces of their towns and also of Japanese atrocities.

The last wave of migrants came after liberation to work at U.S. Army camps at Pansol and neighboring areas.

Pansol (as sitio of Balara) became part of Quezon City in 1939 when President Manuel L. Quezon signed into law Commonwealth Act No. 502 on October 12, 1939 creating Quezon City.

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