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Olongapo City
Olongapo was a small fishing village of Subic. Records show that the Aetas were its first settlers. In 1884, Olongapo was occupied buy the Spaniards who made it a settlement of the Spanish navy. Recognizing at once the advantages of Subic Bay's "uniform depth, wide waters and the protection from strong winds provided by the mountains on three sides," King Alfonso II, proclaimed Subic Bay as a Spain's stronghold in the Far East. Lured by the deep water harbor which regarded as "having no equal in the Philippine island," Admiral George Dewey took Olongapo and the Subic Bay during the Spanish - American war in 1898. The subsequent turn of events made by the bay area and 70,000 acres of adjacent land including Olongapo, a U.S. military reservation. The United States spent million of dollars in 1951 to convert the base. On December 7, 1959, after a protracted agitation by its citizens, Olongapo was relinquished by the United States to the Philippine government and converted into a municipality. Six years later, on the first day of June 1966, Olongapo was reconverted into a chartered city.
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