The town and parish were created in 1858. Emiliano Diez finished in 1887. Many residents have had the distinction to serve their town as capitan, municipal president or municipal mayor. The first to hold such positions were Apolonio Navarro, Macario Farama, and Ricardo Maningo respectively. An attraction in San Francisco is a natural phenomenon - a small island in the midst of a picturesque lake.
Old timers claim that there was no lake before on that place as the entire area was forestland.
But after a terrible lightning and thunder, part of the land sunk, leaving only a portion in the middle. In fact is said that at the bottom of the lake are forest logs which residents retrieved and used for building their houses. This islet, a small town called Daan Lungsod, has lain submerged in the lake for more than a hundred years now. Fishermen in the area claim that there are actually roofs, posts and what appears to be a street, under water. Lake Danao is the largest, perhaps the only one of such size in the Visayas.