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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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 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0405 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Gilliam, Andrew Jackson | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Polk |
5 miles SW of Dallas on the Dallas-Falls City Road. |
No | No |
Chain of ownership: Andrew Jackson Gilliam; to William Douglas Gilliam (son); to Annis Tilgner (granddaughter). 50 acres of original farm in present farm. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Handwritten letter; Typewritten letter; 1959 and 1960 state fair celebration registration forms; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 2 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0510 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Robinson, Benjamin M. & Elizabeth J. Chrisman Robinson | 1844 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Notification # 1019, Claim # 52 | No | No | Yamhill |
3 miles S of Dayton |
No | 70 acres general farm land.... | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0197 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Brock, Vineyard C. | 1854 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
T 13 S R 3 W |
Linn | No | No |
Applicant owns 40 acres of original DLC. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Typewritten letter. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0472 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Chapman, William | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Yamhill |
1/2 mile SW of Sheridan |
Dickey, Helen E.; Dickey, Glen | No | Dairy, grain | No |
640 acres in original farm. Chain of ownership: William Chapman, 1852 to 1911; Frank Chapman (son) to 1934; Glen & Helen E. Dickey (granddaughter) to date. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0123 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Jones, Abraham | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Douglas |
End of Calkins Road. |
Moore, Harlan (Mr. and Mrs.) | No | no | sheep | No |
Portions of the farm were rented. 104 acres in original farm. 35 acres in current farm. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | Indiana | 1 | |||||||||||
CFR0238 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Tindall, Charles and Ruth Marion | 1953 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Yes | No |
section 10 of T 10 S R 2 W |
Linn | Sims, Hazel; Standley, Venus; Bowman, Mabel; Rice; Pearl. | No | No |
Charles and Ruth Tindall passed land to children A.C. Tindall, Lloyd Tindall, and Marion Tindall (father of applicant). At the death of Marion Tindall in 1956, he heired 80 acres to four daughters: Hazel Sims, Venus Standley, Mable Bowman, and Pearl Rice. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Handwritten letter. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 |