Bohol Circle Immigrant Park

Bohol Circle Inc. is the first and oldest Filipino-American organization in the United States. Founded on September 21st,1936, Bohol Circle Inc. was created with the goal of helping Filipinos in the San Francisco Bay Area obtain a respectful burial after immigrating to the United States. After the death of TelofiloTorregosa, a young Filipino man, in 1935, 7 Filipinos: Roman Torregosa, Carl Caaganan, Dal Jayag, Gaudencio Guyot, Victor Cainia, Antonio Deloso, and Eleuterio Caagaanan, felt that the best way to help Filipino immigrants was to build an organization that can serve as a financial safety net in the form of mutual aid should emergencies such as death occur. The organization was named after the island of Bohol, a Visayan island in the Philippines, from which all of the founders came. The "circle" symbolized their struggles by manifesting their bonds as within a circle.