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 |
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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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CFR0659 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Suter, Eli C. and James A. | Eli C. Suter Century Farm | 1882 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Clackamas | Suter, Henry G.; Suter, George H. | No | Apples; Grain; Hay; Prunes;... | At time of application:... | No |
Eagle Creek is not in Clackamas County (noted by AB, 6/20/13) |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Farm history; Handwritten letter; Typewritten letter; Photograph. |
No | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0788 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Goodknecht, Peter | 1881 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from Thomas Miller |
Marion |
1078 Cascade Hwy NE, Silverton, OR |
Riches, Robert L. | No | Barn | Hops, Wheat, Oats, Cattle,... | Grass seed, Wheat, Sugar... | No |
Property was divided once. |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Farm history; Deeds. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | great grandson | Switzerland, Kansas | Switzerland | 3 | ||||||||
CFR0917 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Schmeltzer, Conrad K. | 1878 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | certificate #779, Oregon City | No | Washington | Schmeltzer, John Demory; Schmeltzer family | No | None of the original... | prunes, walnuts | At time of application:... | No |
Extensive notes for each question in the original application. Please see application for more details. |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Homestead certificate; Deed; Typewritten letters. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | great grandson | Pennsylvania | 2 | ||||||||||
CFR1048 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Kerslake, Robert | Hilltop Produce Farms, LLC | 1893 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
T 1, R 4, S 6 |
Multnomah | Kerslake, Kenneth R.; Kerslake, Kurtis R. | No | No | Friday, November 30, 2001 | 2002 |
Deeds; Family history; Copies of photos. |
No | No | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
SFR0012 | Download Application (PDF) | Sesquicentennial Ranch | King, John | 1849 | 119.00 | 312.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Marion |
Hwy 214 Silver Falls Hwy at the 20 mile post |
10 miles | Sublimity | Scott, Guy; Scott, Mary Ann | No | Grains; Grass seed; Hops;... | Christmas trees; Pasture;... | No | Sunday, October 28, 2007 | 2008 |
Application; Statement of affirmation; Handwritten family history narrative; Ancestral chart; Newspaper articles; Family and farm history; Copies of photographs |
Yes | Yes | MSS ORCFRP | Great-great grandson of John King. | Iowa | 1 | ||||||||||
CFR0076 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Baker, Endymion | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Clackamas | Baker, Sidney E. | No | Filberts; Grain; Hops. | Alta Fescue, Grass. | No | Monday, November 30, 1959 | 1960 |
Application; Typewritten letter. |
No | No | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
CFR0217 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Montgomery, William G. & Mary L. | 1855 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Notification No. 2671 | No | No |
Sec 35 T 9 S R 1 W, W.M., containing 320 acres. |
Linn | No | No |
150 acres of DLC owned by Maysel Lyon and 170 acres owned by her brother, Darrell Montgomery. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0356 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Eoff, John Leonard | 1848 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Parts of # 8, 46 & 90. | No | No | Marion | Eoff, Asel C. | No | no | grain, purebred work horses,... | grain, hay | No |
640 acres in original farm. 126 acres in present farm. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; General Land Office document; 1959 Obituary for J. L. Eoff; Deed of DLC of George & Nancy Eoff. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | Iowa | 1 | ||||||||||
CFR0357 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Esson, Alexander & Christina Stevens | Maple Hill Farm | 1866 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Marion | Ewing, Evanelle Esson; Renter. | No | No. Ida Esson Memorial... | beef cattle, pigs, corn, oats... | sheep, horses, strawberries,... | No |
In 1861 Alexander Esson purchased the first portion of this farm from Joseph & Virginia Cox. (This is different land) In 1866 he purchased additional land from Milton & Celia B. Young, which was a portion of the John C. Carey DLC. 320 acres in original and present farm. ***8/31/15 Update actual founding date is 1866, as the land purchased from Cox is different than the land from Milton Young (deed is being supplied for records which is the origination of the farm), the property purchased in 1861 was sold prior to purchase of this farm in 1866. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Email correspondence; Handwritten notes; Deed. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1605 | granddaughter | Scotland via New York | 2 | ||||||||||
CFR0495 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Morris, Eliam | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Yamhill |
2 miles W of Yamhill on the North Yamhill River |
Morris, Leo R.; Morris, Crystal B. | No | Original buildings still... | No |
230 acres in present farm. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 |