The town was a cradle of Filipino passive resistance against Spanish colonial rule in the 1890s and the subsequent Philippine Revolution, with the participation of the local Katipunan council based in the area with Pio del Pilar, a local resident from the village of Culi-Culi, as its president.
By 1898, Spain ceded the Philippines and other overseas possessions to the United States after the former's defeat in the Spanish-American War.