CFR0393
View Application:
Original Owner:
Hill, Henry Washington & Martha Ann
Year of Property Acquisition:
1851
Award Type:
Century Farm
Donation land claim:
Yes
Dlc num and registration location:
Claim # 45, Notification # 1525
Homestead:
No
Other:
No
Legal description for the farm or ranch headquarters:
Sec 28, 33 T 8 S R 4 W, W.M., containing 540 acres.
County:
Polk
Address physical location:
Containing S part of town of Independence & and extending S 3/4 mile.
Original buildings still in use:
No
Building structures on property with date of construction:
First home was located at the Independence Baptist church site. In 1853, the first US postoffice for Independence was located in the log store owned by Henry Hill and partners Burbank & Williams.
Crops or livestock currently raised on property:
Cherries.
National register property:
No
Contact first name:
Constance
Date of application:
1957-11-30 00:00:00
Date of award:
1958
Genealogical information included:
No
Application on file:
Yes
Application location:
Mss 1604
Applicants relationship to original owners:
granddaughter
How many generations still live on the farm or ranch:
0
Notes and comments property:
Existing farm is 90 acres 1/2 mile S of Independence and contains 40 acres of the original DLC. Chain of ownership: Henry & Martha Hill to their daughter & youngest child to Constance Henderson.
Original Acreage:
0.0acres
Current Acreage:
0.0
Acreage farmed or ranched today:
0