Way back in 1939, during President Manuel L. Quezon’s term organized under the National Land Settlement Administration (NLSA) of the Commonwealth, when General Paulino Santos (Where the City got its name) led the relocation of Christian settlers from Luzon. From these settlers many more people came to the city coming from Luzon, Visayas and other parts of Mindanao . These started the fact that B’laans are natives of General Santos. But before the city got it’s name many names are given to this and names for the division of city’s barangays. One for it’s name is Dadiangas which is derived from the original name of a native plant consist of many thorns. The term Dadiangas is still use in the particular city. The Municipality of General Santos General Santos City is now one of the industrialized and urbanized Cities in the Philippines
With the city’s natural beauty and resource of sea creatures, Fishing Industry was the first thing known by other people about GenSan. The cultivation and high population of sea creatures especially Yellow fin Tuna was the main trade on the said City. Almost all kinds of Tuna eaten by us people were come from GenSan. Because of this reason General Santos City is said to be the “Tuna Capital of the Philippines
Philippine map locating the soccsksargen which is the region of General Santos City
