Municipal Building Photos

New Corella has a simple history sixty nine (69) years ago. In the year 1935, five years before the outbreak of World War II, a group of Boholano’s headed by Catalino Chatto Sayon, a young agriculture graduate and fresh from his adventures in the United States, arrived in a small barrio of Bugwak (now Barangay New Bohol), part of the former District of Saug, now the municipality of Asuncion, to seek for land that they hope to till and cultivate as their own.
Not satisfied of the terrain and location of the land around Bugwak that are hilly, these Boholanos moved on a little north. Utilizing the native Mangguwangans and Mandayas as their guide, they arrived at Mopia plains were they were amazed and attracted of the potentialities and rich resources for irrigation. To develop the place, the Boholanos took the opportunity of occupying and tilling their respective claimed land areas.
The plain became the haven of the second, third and fourth waves of Boholanos settlers and after a year, the barrio of New Corella was born, a name given after their hometown of Corella, Bohol. The barrio being fully established, became the fourth barrio created within the eastern part of the vast Saug district territory.
 

As a municipality, New Corella was formerly a barangay of her mother town Asuncion. It was once created through Presidential Proclamation in 1964 and was fully established in 1965 after the first set of municipal officials sworn in to Presidential Diosdado Macapagal in Manila.
Appointed as first municipal mayor was Engr. Prospero Amatong who held office only for eleven months because after the elections in 1965 the Supreme Court declared its creation as illegal and unconstitutional.  In 1966 Congressman Lorenzo Sarmiento filed House Bill No. 394 creating New  Corella into a municipality. The bill was enacted and approved into law through Republic Act No. 4747. This marked the rebirth of New Corella as a full-fledged municipality.
The first elected mayor of the town was Hon. Arcadio E. Omega. He served the municipality from 1968 to 1971. He was re-elected and served from 1972-1980. He was followed by Hon. Miguel C. Darunday who was elected in January 1980. He served from 1980-1986. He was followed by Hon. Daniel B. Turan. He served from 1986-1998. Then, followed by Hon. Jose Recarido P. Federsio. He serve from 1998-2007. At present, Hon. Nestor L. Alcoran is the incumbent municipal mayor ( 2007 – present ).