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Baguio City Hall façade, with the historical marker on one of its columns. Some historical markers have also caused issues and controversies due to different reasons. Baguio City Hall – Markers have also been used to justify the historicity of the place and help preserve the area, like in the issue of developing the City Hall site in Baguio.
The first Baguio weekly was the Baguio Banner, the city's pioneer newspaper that was born circa 1945. Banner's proprietors entered into a joint venture with Sinai starting with a used P20,000 printing press, which printed BMC's first issues.
Prior to World War II, Baguio was the summer capital of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, as well as the home of the Philippine Military Academy. [12] In 1939, the city had a population of 24,000 people, most of whom were Filipinos, along with other nationalities, including about 500 Japanese. [13]
The Baguio City Health Services Office is the office responsible for the health care programs provided by the city government, operating 16 health centers and 15 satellite clinics. Baguio hosts the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center or BGHMC, a tertiary state-owned hospital administered and operated by the Department of Health.
Gates of the Mansion House in Baguio. The markers are in Ilocano, Filipino, and English. This list of historical markers installed by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) is an annotated list of people, places, or events in the region that have been commemorated by cast-iron plaques issued by the said commission.
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The Baguio City Council (Filipino: Sangguniang Panlungsod ng Baguio) is Baguio's Sangguniang Panlungsod or legislative body. The council has 15 members which is composed of 12 councilors, one ex officio member elected from the ranks of barangay (neighborhood) chairmen, one ex officio member elected from the ranks of Sangguniang Kabataan (youth council) chairmen and one presiding officer.
House of History, the Aguinaldo Mansion is the locus of a focal point in the unfolding of Philippine history. Constructed in 1845, the original structure of the house was of nipa-and-thatch material. It was reconstructed four years later using a variety of Philippine hardwood.