There was once a widow who lived in a small barrio. She had two sons living with her in a nipa hut. One day the old woman became ill. She had taken many medicines, but she would not get well. One night she dreamt of a fruit that could cure her. The next morning, she related her dream to her sons. The two boys left to look for the fruit. After a long search, they reached the place, where they saw a very tall tree. The boys stopped, and they started looking for the fruit. Where they found the fruit at the top of the tree. The older boy started to climb the tall tree.

 

 When he was halfway up the tree the younger boy cried, “Be careful, you might fall, the tree is very tall.” The older brother replied, “I have to climb this tall tree to get the fruit for the mother’s sake.” And so, he got the fruit.

 

The two boys hurried home with the fruit and gave the fruit to their mother. She ate the fruit and like a miracle, the mother got well. From that time on the place where the tall tree was found has been called Mataasnakahoy.
The name “Mataasnakahoy” was registered as a barrio of the Municipality of Lipa in 1878. It was specified in the Executive Order that the new Municipality would embrace all of the territories comprising the two barrios of Calingatan and Mataasnakahoy.
Mataasnakahoy was sliced out of the northwestern part of the then Municipality of Lipa. The town takes the shape of a triangle with one of the three sides bordering the shore of Taal Lake.  The whole place is hilly.  Only one of the three corners is level, where the Poblacion lies. It was declared as an independent Municipality on March 1932 by virtue of EO No. 308 by the acting Governor-General George C. Butte. 

​LGUMataasnakahoy