Mabini Monuments

Two monuments to Apolinario Mabini stand along the Asan Beach Trail, near the east end of the parking lot.

Apolinario Mabini was the Prime Minister and Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the First Philippine Republic from January 23, 1899 – May 7, 1899. When the United States acquired the Philippines from Spain at the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898, Mabini and other Filipino nationalists fought a bitter and bloddy war for independence. Mabini was captures by the U.S. Army in March 1899, but he refused to take an oath of allegiance to the United States and publicly criticized the American military government.

Mabini and forty-seven other defiant Filipino politicians and generals, plus fourteen servants, were banished Guam in 1901. Guam's Naval Government established a prison camp called the Asan Presidio at Asan Point to house them. Most of the exiles returned to the Philipines the following year. Mabini himself returned in 1903, shortly before his death.

The 1961 Mabini Monument, a coral obelisk with a bust of Mabini on top, was erected by the Philippine-American Council of Guam.

The 1964 Mabini Monument, a simple concrete slab with a metal plaque attached, was erected by the Philippines Historical Committee.