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In 1988, First American began to operate internationally with the opening of title insurance offices in Canada. International operations continued to expand from there onwards, and First American was the first title insurance provider in Mexico, Korea and Hong Kong, having the leading market share in Australia and England.
California was admitted as a U.S. state on September 9, 1850. [8] The admission act made no reference to Native American land rights. [9] On their second day in office as California's first Senators, John Fremont and William M. Gwin introduced bills to extinguish all aboriginal title in California. [10]
LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc. was the third largest title insurance group in the US. It was incorporated in 1991 as Lawyers Title Corporation, and renamed LandAmerica after Lawyers Title acquired Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company and Transnation Title Insurance Company in 1998. It was headquartered in Glen Allen, Virginia.
California's first such newspaper was the Mirror of the Times, which began publishing in the mid-1850s. [1] Although the number of African Americans in California did not exceed 1,100 until the 20th-century, [2] seven African American newspapers were established in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 19th century. [3] Newspaper examples
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American Canyon (previously known as Napa Junction [6]) is a city located in southern Napa County, California, United States, 35 miles (55 km) northeast of San Francisco, part of the San Francisco Bay Area. The 2020 census reported the city's population as 21,837. [7] Its ZIP Code is 94503, and its area code is 707.
The California Alien Land Law of 1920 continued the 1913 law while filling many of its loopholes. Among the loopholes filled were that the leasing of land for a period of three years or less was no longer allowed; owning of stock in companies that acquired agricultural land was forbidden; and guardians or agents of ineligible aliens were required to submit an annual report on their activities.
The Mexican land grant period formed many more ranchos in California from mission and Native American lands. Pablo Tac , who lived at Mission San Luis Rey in the 1820s and 1830s, penned this drawing depicting two young men wearing skirts of twine and feathers with feather decorations on their heads, rattles in their hands, and (perhaps) painted ...