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<img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.kahimyang.com/resources-3/dapitan-rizal.webp" alt="Dapitan City" />
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(Dapitan City location map)
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<p>
Different shrines may be found in this site, including Rizal's residence, pupils' quarter, chicken house, clinics, a water reservoir, a natural heart shaped 

rock used to scribble verses of Rizal’s poems, amphitheater, and a concrete building which houses Rizaliana books, periodicals and other 

historical exhibits.
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<p>
When Dr. Rizal reached Dapitan as a prisoner in July, 1892, he found it a sleepy little town but soon it blossomed with activity and progress. 

Together with his friend Father Francisco Sanchez, he helped remake the plaza which he jokingly said, <i>"must rival the best in Europe"</i>. 
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<p>
The improvement was made even possible when Rizal won a lottery ticket worth P6,000, a relatively huge amount during that time, all of which he 

spent in his Dapitan enclave and an additional 16 hectares of land.
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<h3>
About Forbes
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<p>
Forbes was governor-general of the Philippines, 1909-1913,  during the administration of US President William Howard Taft.   As a legacy 

from those years of his service in the Philippines, the gated community of Forbes Park in Makati, Rizal (present day Makati City) was named after 

him.  This community is the residence of some of the wealthiest people in the country. 
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<p>
Lacson Avenue in Manila  formerly called Forbes Avenue also named after him.  It is still called "Forbes" by some people up to the present 

day.
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<p>
In 1921, US President Warren G. Harding sent Forbes and Leonard Wood as heads of the Wood-Forbes Commission to investigate conditions in the 

Philippines.  The Commission concluded that Filipinos were not yet ready for independence from the United States, a finding that was widely 

criticized in the Philippines.
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<small>
<b>Reference:</b><br/>
Philippines News Agency<br/>
Photo:  Google Map
</small>
</i>
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July 28, 1909: Forbes endorsed the reconstruction of Rizal's house in Dapitan