Amber Corwin Farrow (born December 21, 1978) is an American former competitive figure skater . She is the 1999 Four Continents silver medalist and 2004 bronze medalist.
23-547: Corwin was born on December 21, 1978, in Harbor City, California . In December 2004, she completed her degree in fashion merchandising and marketing from Cal State Long Beach . She is married to Franklin Farrow, with whom she has a daughter, Vienna. Corwin started skating at the age of five. Making her Champions Series (Grand Prix) debut, she placed 10th at the 1996 NHK Trophy . At the 1997 U.S. Championships , she became
46-564: A patent from the United States. The Spanish Crown granted the 75,000 acres (300 km ) of land to soldier Juan José Domínguez in 1784, with his descendants validating their legal claim with the Mexican government at 48,000 acres (190 km ) in 1828, and later maintaining their legal claim through a United States patent validating 43,119 acres (174.50 km ) in 1858. The original Spanish land grant included what today consists of
69-654: A portion of the Rancho San Pedro land grant was contested between the Domínguez and Sepúlveda families through various appeals to Spanish Governors and lawsuits from 1817–1883 and was eventually partitioned into seventeen parcels in 1882. The Sepúlveda family was awarded 31,629 acres (128 km ) known as Rancho de los Palos Verdes that later became the cities of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, as well as portions of Torrance and San Pedro. With
92-698: A very large Tongva settlement in the Harbor area, was also a departure point for rancherias on the Channel Islands. The water at Machado Lake was so clean that it used to be called "Sweet Water." The Tongva lived in a virtual paradise for thousands of years, with good weather, an abundance of food and water, and plenty of resources. In 1542, the Spanish arrived in the Catalina (Pimu’nga) and San Pedro (Chaawenga, Palos Verdes-Chowiinga) harbor areas. Harbor City
115-595: Is a highly diverse neighborhood in the South Bay and Harbor region of Los Angeles , California, with a population upward of 36,000 people. Originally part of the Rancho San Pedro Spanish land grant, the 2.58-square-mile (6.7 km ) Harbor City was brought into Los Angeles as a preliminary step in the larger city's consolidation with the port cities of Wilmington and San Pedro. The area includes two high schools and seven other schools, as well as
138-550: The 1999 Four Continents Championships . After finishing fourth at the 2004 U.S. Championships , she won the bronze medal at the 2004 Four Continents Championships . Corwin was represented by Michael Collins Enterprises. She retired from competitive skating in March 2006 to focus on a career in the fashion industry. She designed many of her skating costumes. GP: Champions Series / Grand Prix ; JGP: Junior Series / Junior Grand Prix Harbor City, California Harbor City
161-536: The Gaspar de Portolà expedition and, along with Junípero Serra , traveled to San Juan Capistrano , San Gabriel , and Monterey . In 1784, Dominguez was granted a concession of seventeen Spanish leagues , or 75,000 acres (300 km ), from the Spanish Empire . Domínguez's original grazing permission stretched from present-day Compton to the Palos Verdes Peninsula but did not become a title to land until it
184-548: The Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, located along Pacific Coast Highway (SR 1) , between Normandie and Vermont Avenues. The hospital is across from Ken Malloy Memorial Park. 18.1% of Harbor City's residents aged 25 or older had completed a four-year degree by 2000, an average figure when compared with the city and the county at large. The schools within Harbor City's boundaries are: In
207-647: The cession of California to the United States following the Mexican–American War , the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho San Pedro was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, and a patent for 43,119 acres (170 km ) was granted to Manuel Domínguez and signed by President James Buchanan on December 18, 1858. A separate claim
230-509: The 1990s, Coast Christian Schools (now Valor Christian Academy ) had a campus in Harbor City. Los Angeles Public Library operates the Harbor Gateway-Harbor City Branch Library. 33°47′24″N 118°17′49″W / 33.79°N 118.29694°W / 33.79; -118.29694 Rancho San Pedro Rancho San Pedro was one of the first California land grants and the first to win
253-519: The Ken Malloy Harbor Regional and two other parks. There is a Kaiser Permanente hospital as well. Harbor City's percentage of high school graduates is larger than the city's as a whole. Harbor City is flanked by Harbor Gateway to the north, West Carson and Wilmington to the east, Wilmington and San Pedro to the south and Torrance and Lomita to the west. The neighborhood's boundaries are West Sepulveda Boulevard on
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#1732801513173276-734: The Pacific coast cities of Los Angeles harbor, San Pedro , the Palos Verdes peninsula, Torrance , Redondo Beach , Hermosa Beach , and Manhattan Beach , and east to the Los Angeles River , including the cities of Lomita , Gardena , Harbor City , Wilmington , Carson , Compton , and western portions of Long Beach and Paramount . Juan José Domínguez (1736–1809), a Spanish soldier, arrived in San Diego , California , in 1769 with Fernando Rivera y Moncada and served with
299-562: The best interests of Angeles if the port and harbor areas were directly annexed. The independent cities of San Pedro (founded in the late 18th century) and Wilmington (founded in 1858 by Phineas Banning ) were then-independent establishments of what would become the Port of Los Angeles . Following the establishment of San Pedro as the main source for the port in Santa Monica in 1897, Los Angeles city leaders argued that direct control over
322-399: The city as a whole. Population was estimated at 36,040 in 2008. The median age was 40, also average for Los Angeles. The percentages of people from birth through age 34 were among the county's highest. The percentage of widowed men (7.3%) was among the county's highest. Harbor City is considered highly diverse ethnically, with a diversity index of 0.674. In 2000 Latinos made up 48.1% of
345-599: The first U.S. woman to land a triple-triple combination in the short program. During her career she attempted to learn the quadruple toe loop jump in hopes of becoming the first woman to land one in competition. During the 1997–98 ISU Junior Series , Corwin was awarded gold in Germany and silver in Slovakia. She qualified to the ISU Junior Series Final , where she won the silver medal. She won silver at
368-622: The housing units, and homeowners occupied the rest. The Los Angeles Basin was the ancestral land of the Tongva–Gabrieleño Native Americans for thousands of years. In other areas of the Los Angeles Basin, archeological sites date back 8,000 to 15,000 years. Their first contact with Europeans was in 1542 with João Cabrilho (Juan Cabrillo), the Portuguese explorer who also was the first to write of them. Shwaanga,
391-477: The north, Western Avenue and the Harbor Freeway (following the city line with Los Angeles County ) on the east, West Anaheim Street and Palos Verdes Drive on the south and the boundary with Lomita and Torrance on the west A total of 23,561 people lived in Harbor City's 2.58 square miles, according to the 2000 U.S. census—about 9,127 people per square mile, an average population density compared to
414-408: The population, non-Hispanic whites 25.1%, Asians 14.1%, blacks 10.7% and others 2%. Mexico and Korea were the most common places of birth for the 36.2% of the residents who were born abroad, considered an average percentage of foreign-born when compared with the city and the county as a whole. The $ 55,454 median household income in 2008 dollars was average for the city. Renters occupied 54.4% of
437-440: The port areas would be mutually beneficial by providing San Pedro and Wilmington with larger funding and in turn allowing the city to garner more revenue via the increasing port trade. The two cities were initially reluctant to join, but in 1906, frustrated by the indecision of San Pedro and Wilmington leaders, the city of Los Angeles purchased a long and narrow swath of land that connected then- South Los Angeles to San Pedro, naming
460-425: The two regions Harbor Gateway and Harbor City. City leaders then threatened to build a new port in Harbor City if the recalcitrant towns would not acquiesce to annexation. Both agreed by 1909. In return, the city of Los Angeles elected to keep Harbor City as a land-locked part of the main city, linking the metropolis to its newly-won ocean trading centers. Harbor City hosts a hospital and various medical buildings in
483-498: Was "re-granted" in 1822 in the Mexican era to Juan José's nephew and heir, Cristóbal Domínguez. Cristóbal died soon afterward, but his three sons settled on the ranch, building adobe homes . The following year Manuel Domínguez , eldest son of Cristóbal Domínguez, married María Engracia de Cota and commenced a successful career raising cattle and serving in a variety of elected and appointed offices in Los Angeles. For many years,
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#1732801513173506-500: Was filed by Nasario Domínguez in 1852 for 1/6 of the grant but it was rejected by the Commission in 1855. In 1869, Union Army Major General William Starke Rosecrans bought 16,000 acres (65 km ). The "Rosecrans Rancho" was bordered by what later was Florence Avenue on the north, Redondo Beach Boulevard on the south, Central Avenue on the east, and Arlington Avenue on the west. After the death of Manuel Domínguez and his wife,
529-507: Was originally part of the Rancho San Pedro , granted by the Spanish Empire in 1784 by King Carlos III to Juan Jose Dominguez . The rancho was divided and sold by Californios during the Spanish and Mexican periods of Alta California . After the Mexican–American War ended in 1848, many of the rancho lands were acquired by American settlers. By around the start of the 20th century, city leaders had decided that it would be in
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