Malilion

The present location of Barangay Malilion is the original sight of Barangay San Isidro in th early 1930s. It was said that the first wave of inhabitants came from Vigan, Ilocos Sur, with Leocadio Suyat as their leader. After settling in the vicinity for quite some time it was the concern of all to put up a school where children will be educated. The Suyat Family donated a parcel of land for the school building constructed thru self-help.

                As expected, there was a steady growth of population among the inhabitants, and soon they found out that it could no longer accommodate the schoolgoers from Grades I to VI. The elders proposed for the transfer of the school building to a wide vacant lot north of Malilion owned by Andres Laureta, Serquina, Lucas and Martinez. When the people consented, they transferred the school building to its new location. They brought with them the signboard of the school that carried the name San Isidro.

                The people found out later the pupils who walked about two kilometers or more as their daily routine. They proposed to re-open the school right in its former site and succeeded in this venture but they did not succeed in bringing back the name of the barangay .

                How the barangay got its name is shrouded with mystery. One backgrounder however told us that during the celebration of the Flores the Mayo invited bands usually practiced under the shade of a big molave tree at the entrance of the barangay. These band committed errors regularly, stuff they did not understand hence the idea of “Mali-Mali”, and later on developed into what is called “MALILION”