1.Baguio came from the Ibaloi word “bagiw” which means “moss” because of the city’s abundant growth of mossy plants.
2.Session Road is named so because it was the site where the Philippine Commission’s first session was held.
3.The older generation of Baguio residents are fluent in English because of their close connection to the American colonization.
4.Baguio was originally designed to accommodate 30,000 people.
5.Today, the population has grown to about 400,000.
6.Before the Americans came, Baguio was populated by Ibaloi tribes.
7.And, believe it or not, the barrel man was actually created by Ifugao woodcarvers as a protest against Americans who were displacing the Ibalois in the 1900s.
8.Before 1905, Baguio was only accessible by horse or donkey.
9.This changed when Army Col. Lyman Kennon carved a narrow road on a cliffside. This is now called the Kennon Road.
10.With the outbreak of World War II, classes 1942 and 1943 of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) graduated prematurely and were assigned to combat units in Bataan.
11.Many of these young officers died in the war.
12.The first female cadets were admitted at the PMA in 1993.
13.University of the Philippines Baguio was originally established in Vigan, Ilocos Sur as a branch of the College of Liberal Arts.
14.The iconic lion’s head was built to symbolize the presence of the Baguio City Host Lion’s Club in the area.
15.The Lion’s Club is a service organization that aims to meet the needs of communities on a local and global state.
16.The Lion’s Head was carved by Ifugao artist Reynaldo Lopez Nanyac.
17.The Mansion House was originally built to serve as the official summer residence of US governors general.
18.The Diplomat Hotel used to be a rest house and seminary in 1911 before it was developed into a school and eventually a hotel.
19.In WWII, numerous nuns and priests were beheaded at the Diplomat Hotel.
20.During the Japanese occupation, the Japanese used Teacher’s Camp as their hospital.
21.While Camp John Hay was used by the Japanese as a concentration camp for American and British soldiers during the war.
22.Camp John Hay also used to be off limits to Filipinos except for the privileged few.
23.The famous ube jam was introduced so that Mountain Maid could offer a product that would be available all year round.
24.And finally, we have Mother Mary John of the Cross Kroner for coming up with the recipe for the Good Shepherd’s signature Strawberry Jam.
