Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Butte County Title Abstract Company.
- Extent:
- 2.0 folders
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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Abstract of Title to the Danish tract of the Farwell grant, MSS 250, Special Collections, Meriam Library, California State University, Chico.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The first part of the abstract is missing and the cover is separated. Requested by J.A. Hill on November 29, 1887, the abstract is for lots 20 and 21 of the Danish tract of the Farwell Grant, located in Butte County (California). Names pertaining to titles listed in the abstract: D.M. Reavis, John Boggs, E.B. Pond and C.W. Clarke. The abstractor was W.M. Bowers.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Farwell Grant was a five-league area of land, west to south-west of Chico (California), granted to individual land developers in 1863. The Danish tract, located in the north-east section of the northern half of the Farwell Grant, was first developed in 1869 as a farming colony for Danish immigrants. The colony did not continue past 1870 and the land was sold to local developers.
An abstract of title contains the history of a particular piece of land as it relates to patents, deeds, releases and mortgages.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift
- Arrangement:
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Original
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Abstracts of title--California--Butte County
- Places:
- Butte County (Calif.)--History
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research without restriction.
- Terms of access:
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No restrictions.
- Preferred citation:
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Abstract of Title to the Danish tract of the Farwell grant, MSS 250, Special Collections, Meriam Library, California State University, Chico.
- Location of this collection:
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California State University, Chico, Special Collections Meriam Library400 West First StreetChico, CA 95929-0295, US
- Contact:
- (530) 898-6603