page_title: Imnajbu
section_title: Little America on Ivatan soil
hierarchical_section_title: Imnajbu / History / Little America on Ivatan soil
caption_attribution_description: English: USS&#160;Princeton. Photographed in 1898, probably when first completed.
context_page_description: Imnajbu is one of the four barangays that comprise the municipality of Uyugan in the province of Batanes, Philippines. It is also one of the smallest barangays in all of Batanes and in the Philippines with a population of around a couple of hundred people. Located in the southeast corner of Batan Island, it is bounded by Itbud to the southeast, Uyugan to the southwest, Ivana and Mount Matarem to the west, Mahatao to the north, and the Philippine Sea/Pacific Ocean to the east.
context_section_description: The Americans followed the Spaniards to Batanes after the Spanish naval defeat at Manila Bay in 1898. The USS Princeton (PG-13) that joined the Asiatic Fleet in April 1899 took formal possession of Batanes in January 1900. American public school system was introduced and general health and sanitation campaign was launched. In the 1930s, the Americans built a better road system that replaced the road system (El Camino Real) built during the Spanish period. 
  In the early 1950s a USCG LORAN Station was built a kilometre south of Imnajbutown in Payapay Commons next to Madangay Falls (water flow altered and water falls during the rainy season was destroyed by the Interior Road) and near Imnajbu Point (Alapad Pass and the famed Dead Man's Curve). The Americans left in the early 1970s as satellite communications made the Loran System redundant, but during the 2 decades of American occupation, it was a place unlike any place in Batanes at the time. It was the near equivalent of "middle class" America on Ivatan soil, and it was known as "Little America" to the locals.
caption: USS Princeton in 1898 - She took formal possession of Batanes in January 1900
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