CFR0751
View Application:
Original Owner:
Benninger, William James and Ida Florence
Year of Property Acquisition:
1893
Award Type:
Century Farm
Donation land claim:
No
Homestead:
No
Other:
No
Legal description for the farm or ranch headquarters:
All of the SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Sec 35 T 15 S R 7 W, containing 80 acres.
County:
Lane
Name of farm or ranch:
Benninger Farm
Who farms or ranches today:
Norman May family; Benninger Farm Corporation
Original buildings still in use:
No
Building structures on property with date of construction:
Destroyed by fire.
Crops or livestock historically raised on property:
Timber, hay, fruit trees, garden produce, horses, cows, chickens, pigs.
Crops or livestock currently raised on property:
Polled Herefords, hay, garden produce, fruit trees, horses, timber.
National register property:
No
Contact first name:
Patricia/Anni/Tracy/James
Date of application:
1993-11-30 00:00:00
Date of award:
1994
Genealogical information included:
No
Application on file:
Yes
Application location:
Mss 1604
Applicants relationship to original owners:
great granddaughter
Origin of original owners:
Travis City, Michigan
How many generations still live on the farm or ranch:
4
Notes and comments property:
Railroad land.
Original Acreage:
0.0acres
Current Acreage:
0.0
Acreage farmed or ranched today:
0