The barangay hall was constructed in 1950. The hamorawon retablos of the altar in the barangay chapel were built in the 1930s. The barangay hermita then consisted only of galvanized iron sheets as walls, and corrugated iron sheets for roofing.

The barangay creek and many water holes in paddy ricefields were abundant with fresh water fishes, so much that residents used to catch these fishes there with tambong, silid, taan and banwit.

During the Japanese occupation (1942 to 1945), all residents of sitio Gogon and Dugcal were ordered by the Japanese to relocate their houses along the San Mateo Creek because they suspected that a guerilla was operating in the area of Dugcal.

ORIGIN OF THE NAME

The name of sitio Gogon came from the name of the wild grass “gogon” because in those days the place was “kagugunan“. Barangay Dugcal’s name came from the bikol word “sungkal” (to dig the soil with a pig’s snout), which the residents used to call their place because pigs were seen to furrow the soil with their snouts since houses during days had no fences and pigs were free to roam the place.

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