The Nuvali development of Ayala Land could be found in the barangay and extends to as far as Cabuyao and Santa Rosa, Laguna.

It was confiscated by the government and sold at a public auction to a peninsular Spaniard, Don Tomas de Andaya in 1678.

When the Jesuits were expelled from the Philippines, the land was again confiscated by the government and sold again at a public auction to Don Jose Clemente de Azanza in 1802.

Alfred Ehrman, leader of a group of American businessmen from California, organized and incorporated the Calamba Sugar Estate in 1912 which purchased the friar land.

It also planted coconuts on its property and was a model sugar plantation from 1920 to 1930s.The Americans sold the estate to Vicente Madrigal on the onset of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.

His wife, Doña Cecilia Araneta Yulo of Iloilo, was instrumental in the construction of a school (now Rizal Institute), the church of St. Joseph, civic and recreational centers, and the first outdoor drive-in cinema.

Sports facilities such as a baseball field, swimming pools, tennis courts, bowling lanes, and a golf course were also built.

They sought the assistance of National Artist for Architecture Leandro V. Locsin, married to Cecilia Yulo-Locsin, and the Canlubang Urban Project was born.

It is the only barangay in the province of Laguna under the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Pablo that hosts a patron saint for itself, St. Joseph the Worker, whose feast is celebrated every May 1.