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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CFR0367 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Shaw, George W. & Jane | 1851 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Marion |
Farm located at Route 3, Box 138, Silverton |
Renter | No | no. | Row crops, grain. | No |
640 acres in original farm. 19 acres in present farm. |
Thursday, November 30, 1972 | 1973 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | Missouri | 0 | |||||||||||
CFR0191 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Loehner, George | 1872 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Lane | Hoiland, Vera L. | No | No. Destroyed in 1963 storm. | General farming. | Livestock, general farming | No |
160 acres in original farm. 382 acres in present farm. |
Thursday, November 30, 1972 | 1973 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | California | 1 | |||||||||||
CFR0929 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Demmin, Hulder J. | 1884 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Washington | Gilbert, Melba G. | No | None of the original... | Pigs, Cattle, Chickens,... | Grain, Hay | No |
This property has been divided twice. |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Handwritten letter. |
No | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | granddaughter | Ohio | 3 | |||||||||||
CFR0768 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Gilkey, Allen | 1881 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Linn | Goar, Roy; Goar, Marian | No | None of the original... | Grain | Cattle | No |
It is not known how many times the property has been divided. |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Typewritten letter; Handwritten letter; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | granddaughter | Kentucky | 1 | |||||||||||
CFR0337 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Anderson, James Mechlin | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #777 Oregon City | No | No |
181 acres |
Marion |
5 miles NW of Jefferson, 12 miles S of Salem |
No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement; 1959 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0023 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Knotts, William and Silva Knotts | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #45 | No | No |
T 11 S R 5 W Sections 13, 14, 23, 24 |
Benton | Owens, Elizabeth Knotts | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Notarized ownership document; Correspondence. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0404 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Ridgeway, John | 1846 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim # 43 | No | No |
Sec 20, 21, 28, 29 T 6 S R 6 W |
Polk |
Mill Creek |
No | No |
Chain of ownership: John Ridgeway to William Ridgeway (son) and Mary E. Ridgeway (daughter); to Mary C. Stewart (daughter of William). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | Missouri | 0 | ||||||||||||
CFR0930 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Lilly, James Pisarius | 1884 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from James and Matilda McClaran |
Washington | Larson, Echo (Lilly); Larson, John | No | Old barn still exists and is... | Timber (land was not cleared) | Hay,Thoroughbred horses,... | No | Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Deeds; Handwritten note. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | granddaughter | West Virginia | 1 | |||||||||||
CFR0899 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Chenoweth, James Wesley | 1893 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | Certificate # 1265, Application # 1951. Also, Cert. # 2329, App. # 2712 | No |
NW 1/4 of Sec 9 T 2 S R 44 E, W.M., containing 160 acres. Also, E 1/2 of the W 1/4 and E 1/2 of the NW 1/4 Sec 11 T 2 S R 44 E, W.M., containing 160 acres. |
Wallowa |
Farm located at 82029 Black Marble Lane |
McCormack, Reatha; McCormack, Jim | No | Part of the house and the... | Beef cattle, registered... | Commercial and registered... | No | Monday, November 30, 1992 | 1993 |
Application; Statement form; Family history; Deeds; Homestead certificates; Estate documents (Legal document for the final estate of James Chenoweth); Typewritten letter. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | Bedford, Iowa | 2 | |||||||||
CFR0025 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Sylvester, Mary | 1849 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | # 47 | No | No |
T 11 S R 4 W |
Benton | Reynolds, Minerva Kiger | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Notarized ownership document; Newspaper articles. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 |