Coline-Dalag
Feast Day: 2nd Saturday of January
Patron Saint: Our Lady Of The Most Holy Rosary
Coline and Coline Dalag are situated in a small hill
beside a wide plain in the middle of Alimodian and San Miguel. Rice
grains is the main crop of the people.
According to the story, during the American occupation in
the Philippines there is a group of American soldiers who are patrolling
in this area and they went thirsty. They went to a house to ask some
water to drink. They only gave sign languages as a communication because
they don't understand each others language. After drinking, the couple
who only has one child a girl invited the soldiers for a lunch. Their
lunch consist of rice and fish that was a produce from the mud in the
rice field they called "dalag" (mud fish). The soldiers really
like the fish and they ask for some of it to be brought to their
barracks. The father immediately went down few meters away from their
home to catch some mudfish. One soldier followed him to see where to
find the mudfish and how to catch it. The soldier kept asking the man
while he is catching the fish but did not replied him back because he
could not understand and speak English. When the man already caught a
lot of fish, he called for his daughter "dara ti galon dya Nene kay sudlan ta kang dalag." (Nene bring me a gallon or pitcher so we can put the fish in there)
The only words that the soldier can remember are "Galon, Nene, Dalag." So that when the soldier keep on returning in the place to patrol and to look for that delicious fish, they kept on saying to the people the words "Galon, Nene , Dalag" until the residents were used to just call their place "Galon, Nene, Dalag." Later due to the length of the word, they shorten it to become Coline-Dalag. This is the only words of origin of the place that later became a barangay.
When there is a gradual increase in settlement in the place, there is a group of families who established and created their separate barrio called Coline. Their close relationship to their neighbors of the old barrio never ceases until now. In their own belief, they are twin barrios. So when a school is about to be constructed for these two barangays, it was agreed by the people to build it in between the two barangays.
The only words that the soldier can remember are "Galon, Nene, Dalag." So that when the soldier keep on returning in the place to patrol and to look for that delicious fish, they kept on saying to the people the words "Galon, Nene , Dalag" until the residents were used to just call their place "Galon, Nene, Dalag." Later due to the length of the word, they shorten it to become Coline-Dalag. This is the only words of origin of the place that later became a barangay.
When there is a gradual increase in settlement in the place, there is a group of families who established and created their separate barrio called Coline. Their close relationship to their neighbors of the old barrio never ceases until now. In their own belief, they are twin barrios. So when a school is about to be constructed for these two barangays, it was agreed by the people to build it in between the two barangays.
