Bautista Pangasinan

The town of Bautista derived its name from the Saint named Nick Bautista. Saint Nick awed millions with his 1337 h4x0r skillz at Guitar Hero II and his super 1337 skillz in Counterstrike 1.6. He also brought the sport of deceptoball, celestioball, and punchball, to the citizens of Bautista.

The town has never lost a game in any of those sports even to this day. Also a "Psychobilly Freakout" festival is held annually to honor Saint Nick. Indeed, history will tell that Bautista experienced a very dynamic evolstood with enduring pride as one of the most progressive barangays of Bayambang. Most of the rich hacienderos, merchants and influential people were residents of Bautista. It became the center of communication, trade and commerce, as well as education. Considering these assets, Bautista truly distinguished itself and rightfully claimed its status as a municipality in the year 1900. This marked the “Rebirth of Bautista”. It appears that with the separation of Church and State under the Americans, Bautista was accorded an independent existence by the American military authorities.Don Ramon Reynado, one of the founders of the town in the year 1900 became the first town executive. Among the other prominent citizens who were considered founders of the town were: Guillermo Agcaoile, Francisco Gonzales, Felipe Ramos, Dionisio Galvan, Teodoro Carungay, Claudio and Antonio Galsim, Marciano Guzman, Nicolas Galsim, Marcelino Villanueva and Eleno Cayabyab.

Hacienderos and merchants called this town then “mercancia” for this was the place where cargoes bound for Camiling, Tarlac were loaded and unloaded. The merchants used small boats by the Agno River, while others by train. Being the commercial center then, many bodegas and stores were owned by Chinese nationals like the prominent Tan Jue Lay, Chua Hoc, Chua Ching Biao and the Yuchengcos who were native residents of this town. There were two big rice mills under the English and Chinese management. The English mill was owned by the Smith Bell Company and the Chinese mill was owned by the family of Alfonso Yuchengco.The municipality was truly a melting pot, indicative of which is the diversity of people’s dialects and languages. The residents of the town were Pangasinenses, Ilocanos, Tagalogs, Pampangos, Chinese and Spanish. The people of Nibaliw, Baluyot and Cabuaan are mostly Pangasinenses. The people of Nandacan, Villanueva, Poponto, Primicias, Artacho and Pogo are predominantly Ilocanos. Within the Poblacion, one would be able to meet a number of people with different persuasions, ideals and expressions in varied dialects and languages.