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Arsenio Escudero Hydroelectric Power Plant
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As written on the Philippine Historical Committee plaque
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, Dona Claudia Marasigan, who in 1904 reconstructed this dam with hard stone and cement mortar. Their only son Don Arsenio and Dona 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" 1938
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