As they arrived in great numbers, so the natives were soon forced to move deeper into the forest areas of the Zambales mountain range.

Don Manuel de Leon, then Governor of Tarlac province appointed Castillan Antonio Sanz, as the town first Municipal President.

However Sanz was autocratic in Spanish customs and was in office for only six months, before a petition seeking his ousting, signed by several municipal councilors.

When the provincial board of Tarlac received the petition, Antonio Sanz was unseated, to be succeeded by the Vice President, Don Francisco Pascual Santos.

The question of leadership having been popularly decided, the townspeople then took up the task of building the physical facilities of the community.

Mayantoc is nestled in the foothills of the Zambales Mountains where the Camiling River originates and provides many scenic picnic and swimming sites, making it known as the summer capital of the province.