| 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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| CFR0401 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Ball, Isaac & Abigail Ball | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Notification # 1910, Claim # 38 | No | No | Polk | Sechrist, Cassie L.; Sechrist, John J. | No | Original farmstead located at... | No |
Chain of ownership: Isaac & Abigail Ball, 640 acres; to Lydia Elizabeth Ball Sears (12th daughter) and Van B. Sears; to Cassie L. Sechrist & John J. Sechrist. Of the 135 acres in present farm, 100 acres of the original farm are included. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Handwritten letters; Typewritten letter; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||
| CFR0407 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Billings, George & Emma | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
See application for additional info. |
Polk | No | No |
Chain of Ownership: George & Emma Billings; to Eudora Billings Bentley (daughter) to 1945; Ethel Bentley Winter (grandaughter) to date. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| CFR0409 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Allen, John Ceton | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Polk | No | No | Sunday, November 30, 1958 | 1959 |
1959 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | No | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| CFR0410 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Baskett, George Johnston | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Polk | No | No | Sunday, November 30, 1958 | 1959 |
1959 state fair celebration registration forms. Registration Century Farm Celebration dated september 6, 1960. Applicant writes that the farm is "106" years old. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| CFR0411 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Allen, John C. | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Polk | No | No | Sunday, November 30, 1958 | 1959 |
1959 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| CFR0412 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Allen, John Ceton | 1851 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Polk | Allen, J. Davis (Mr. and Mrs.) | No | At time of application: Grain... | No | Monday, November 30, 1959 | 1960 |
Application; Farm history; Typewritten letters; Handwritten letter; 1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| CFR0413 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Vandevort, William | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | E 1/2 of Sec 7 in T 7 S R 3 W | No | No | Polk | Vaughn, Ruth E. | No | no | grain, hay, dairy, poultry | beef cattle, permanent pasture | No |
DLC deeded to Adam S. Hamilton in 1850. 320 acres in original farm. 23 acres in present farm. Original farm divided 4 times. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Genealogy (for Addie Vandevort); Family birth record; Donation Land Claim deed (for Adam Hamilton). |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | great granddaughter | 1 | |||||||||||
| CFR0415 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Fawk, John | 1868 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Polk | No | no | Grain, hay, livestock (horses... | Hay, grain, orchard. | No |
149.3 acres in original farm. 116 acres in present farm. The original house was located in the SW corner of the property, the point nearest the Salem-Tillamook Stage Road. |
Thursday, November 30, 1972 | 1973 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | England | 1 | ||||||||||||
| CFR0416 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Windsor, Benjimin F. | 1868 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Polk | Miller, Mary Emma | No | Grain, cattle | Grain, Pritchard horses,... | Grain. | No |
250 acres in present farm. At one point there were 1800 acres in the farm. |
Thursday, November 30, 1972 | 1973 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | England | 1 | |||||||||||
| CFR0417 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Vaughn, Warren N. | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Tillamook | No | No | Sunday, November 30, 1958 | 1959 |
1959 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 1 |
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