Magandang Gensan

 

GENERAL SANTOS CITY’S BRIEF HISTORY

The B’laan people were the original and native settlers of what is know now as the city of General Santos. They lived a nomadic way of life in GenSan, and they are believed to have very rich culture and tradition. They named GenSan after the trees called “Dadiangas” which are abundant during that time.

Under the organization of National Land Settlement Administration headed by the former President Manuel L. Quezon, on February 27, 1939, headed by GeneralPaulino Santos, 62 Christian Settlers were sent to the land of “Dadiangas”. They traveled by a steam boat ‘Basilan’ of Compania Maritima. The 62 settlers industriously cultivate GenSan’s fertile expanse of land. After some time more and more settlers from Luzon and Visayas moved to the fertile land of “Dadiangas”. However this resulted in the displacement of the nomadic tribes of B’laan.

On March 1939, the first formal settlement in “Dadiangas” was established in ’’Alagao’’ which is now known as Barangay Lagao. Lagao district was known then as the “Municipal District of Buayan” under the jurisdiction of the deputy governor of the Municipal District of Glan. Until it officially became an independent Municipal District of Buayan on October 1, 1940 appointing Datu Sharif Zainal Abedin.

Fourteen years later the “Municipality of Buayan” was renamed General Santos in tribute to the great leader of the pioneers who built the small town of GenSan. After long years of waiting on July 8, 1968 The Municipality General Santos was finally converted into a City.

Now General Santos City is one of the most populous and prosperous cities in the Philippines and it is continuously improving and developing to compete globally. General Santos City is also classified as a ‘Higly-Urbanized’ City.

GSC Dance Sports Team cited

General Santos City Hall

Gensan’s Dance Sports Team was cited by the City Council for winning numerous awards and prizes during the 1st Mindanao Association of Dance Sports Educators, Inc.-Mindanao-wide Dance Sports Competition held at Davao Doctors College gym.

In its resolution, the SP said that “such Mindanao-wide success of the GSC Dance Sports Group has given pride and honor to Gensan and has earned the respect (…more)