It hardly seems possible that for thousands of years the place where the town of Pagbilao now lies was unknown to other Filipinos. The people then in distant places went about their lives unaware of a great place which lay on the northern part of Tayabas Bay and on the northeastern part of the Sierra Madre mountain range. The accidental discovery of the place was a result of the search for fortune, the trial of the braves and hardy pioneers who wanted to build new homes in the wilderness to be called their own.