| Title | View Application | Award Type | Original Owner | Name of farm or ranch | Year of Property Acquisition | Original Acreage | Current Acreage | Acreage farmed or ranched today | Donation land claim | Dlc num and registration location | Homestead | Homestead Information | Other | Please explain | Legal description for the farm or ranch headquarters | County | Address physical location | GPS location | Distance from nearest town | Nearest town name | Who farms or ranches today | Original buildings still in use | Building structures on property with date of construction | Crops or livestock historically raised on property | Crops or livestock currently raised on property | National register property | National register name | Notes and comments property | Date of application | Date of award | Please describe attachments | Genealogical information included | Application on file | Application location | Applicants relationship to original owners | Origin of original owners | Ethnic origin of original owners |
How many generations still live on the farm or ranch |
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| SFR0031 | Download Application (PDF) | Sesquicentennial Farm | Adams, John Franklin | John F. Adams Farming Enterprise | 1865 | 3,200.00 | 4,000.00 | 4000 | No | Yes | Homestead Land Patent 1877; 1892 | Yes |
No real proof of 1865 date, but trust Century Status, and supporting documents |
Umatilla |
Adams, OR |
1 mile | Adams, OR | Adams, John W. | Yes | First house in 1865, no... | Wheat; Cattle; Sheep | Peas; Wheat | No | Tuesday, April 28, 2015 | 2015 |
Application; Statement of affirmation; Farm history timeline; Family history narrative; Century farm letter; Email from Oregon Century Farm and Ranch Program; Copies of original homestead certificates; Excerpt from "History of Adams, Volume II"; Excerpt from "History of Pacific Northwest Oregon and Washington"; Copies of photographs; Letter; Satellite photographs of property |
Yes | Yes | MSS ORCFRP | great grandson | Maine | 2 | ||||||
| CFR0039 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Rickard, Andrew | 1860 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Benton | Rickard, Glen; Rickard, Ellie; Renter | No | Old house used as shed. | Common Vetch; Oats; Wheat;... | Beets; Squash; Horses; Pigs;... | No |
160 acres in original farm. 48.2 acres in present farm. |
Sunday, November 30, 1969 | 1970 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Missouri | 2 | |||||||||||
| CFR0590 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Offenbacher, Fred and Minnie Offenbacher | 1898 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from George and Hattie Neuber |
Jackson |
Property divided into three lots. |
Offenbacher, Carl Ray; Offenbacher, Richard | No | None of the original... | cattle, grain, hay | alfalfa hay | No |
land currently owned by brothers Carl Ray Offenbacher and Richard Offenbacher |
Monday, November 30, 1998 | 1999 |
Included are copies of several property records, several tax statements, and a property map with the farm area outlined. Application; Statement of affirmation; Deed; Map. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | great grandson | Germany | Germany | 2 | ||||||||
| CFR1028 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Heller, Louis | Heller Homestead | 1869 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | No |
Sec 27 T 27 S R 11 W |
Coos | Heller, Russell; Heller, Debbie | No | Oats, wheat, hay, vegetables... | Beef, timber. | No |
Charles Heller (Louis Heller's son) brought suit againt the California Railroad for rights to the homestead. He & other settles won suit. |
Thursday, November 30, 2000 | 2001 |
Application; Statement of affirmation; Legal testimony for Louis Heller; Notice of hearing for railroad contest; Typewritten letter; Photocopies of photographs (original homestead before 1900, water wheel, water wheel building, sawmill, threshing, house, barn built in 1920). |
Yes | Yes | OHSField Services File | great grandson | Los Angeles, California | Germany | 2 | |||||||||
| CFR0945 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Scott, John C.; Scott, Sally Harper | 1874 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Yamhill |
4 miles North of McMinnville |
Sitton, Charles E., Sr. (Mrs.) and family | No | House. | Cows (milk), hogs, chickens. | grain | No |
160 acres in original farm. 160 acres in present farm. |
Friday, November 30, 1973 | 1974 |
Application; Certification of ownership; |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | Widow of Charles, grandson of Scott | Virginia | 2 | ||||||||||
| CFR0865 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Holdman Brothers -- Oro, Frank, Wade, William | Holdman Family Farm | 1882 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Umatilla | Holdman Ranches Inc. | No | None of the original... | Sheep, Wheat | Wheat, Barley, Cattle | No |
The original property was divided twice, purchased by family members. The raising of wheat on the property began in 1893. |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Article. |
No | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | grandfather and great uncles | Adams, Oregon | 2 | ||||||||||
| CFR0352 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Norton, Thomas Harvey | 1851 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Marion | No | No | Sunday, November 30, 1958 | 1959 |
1959 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| CFR0270 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Vance, William L. | 1868 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Linn |
1/2 miles South of Tangent |
Jenks, Floyd D. | No | no | Wheat, oats, hay. | Ryegrass, clover, barley,... | No |
100 acres in original farm. 100 acres in present farm |
Sunday, November 30, 1969 | 1970 |
Applications; Certifications of ownership. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grand nephew | Illinois | 2 | ||||||||||
| CFR0541 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Bell, Ulysses Grant and Etta Bates | 1889 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Multnomah | Bell, Jr., Frank Grant; Bell, Lynne | No | House, woodshed. | Potatoes, dairy, apples,... | Hay, chestnuts, plants,... | No | Wednesday, November 30, 1994 | 1995 |
Application; Family biography; Statement form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Kansas | 2 | ||||||||||||
| CFR0881 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Rynearson, William & John | 1864 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
W 1/2 of the W 1/2 of Sec 32 T 2 S R 38 E, W.M., containing 160 acres. |
Union | Rynearson, G. W. | No | Original house still in use,... | Barley, wheat, oats, hogs,... | Wheat, barley, alfalfa,... | No |
160 acres in original farm. 21 acres in present farm. Farm was divided 6 times. Indians, led by Black Hawk, spent summers on the property. 1st road built by Union Co. divided the Ryearson land. |
Friday, November 30, 1973 | 1974 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Deeds; Last will and testament; Newspaper article; Farm history. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Pennsylvania | 2 |
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