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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CFR0020 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Belknap, Ransom A. | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #61 | No | No |
T 14 S R 5 W |
Benton | Kyle, O. B. | No | No |
At the time of the application, the applicant was farming part of the original land of a total of 360 acres. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0153 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Stevens, William | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim # 46 | No | No |
Sec 22 T 17 S R 3 W, W.M. |
Lane | Clemenson, Helen Stevens | No | No |
Chain of ownership: William M. Stevens & Hixey V. 1847; James A. Stevens & Emily F. (Greenwood); Welby Stevens & Ida E. (Goodale); Helen Stevens Clemenson. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Letter of approval; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great great granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0301 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Reeves, Bartley | 1854 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from the George Helm DLC. |
Marion |
3 miles NW of Jefferson |
Hampton, Doris R. | No | Clover (60 acres), Barley (6... | No |
Current property consists of 115 acres. 25 acres of the property is left fallow each summer. Bartley Reeves gave property to daughter Sarah Reeves Roland, who then passed it to her son Guy Roland. Applicant is the daughter of Guy Roland. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great granddaughter | 0 | ||||||||||||
CFR0154 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Benson, Sarah S. | 1851 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim # 42 | No | No |
Sec 17 T 17 S R 3 W, W.M. |
Lane | Cox, Lillian Ayres | No | No |
40 acres of original DLC in present farm. Chain of ownership: Sarah S. Benson 1851-1899; Mary E. Ayres to 1927; Lillian Ayres Cox to date. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Letter of approval. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0961 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Gutbrod, George | Waldersee | 1894 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Yamhill |
1 1/2 miles W of Sheridan on Mill Creek Road |
Molloy, James; Molloy, Emilie I. | No | no | Small grains (wheat, oats),... | Wheat, sugar beet seed, grass... | No |
See CFR0960 for more information. |
Tuesday, November 30, 1993 | 1994 |
Application; Statement form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandddaughter | Germany via Iowa | 3 | |||||||||
CFR0119 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Putnam, Joseph | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Douglas | No | No | Sunday, November 30, 1958 | 1959 |
1959 state fair celebration registration form |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
CFR0269 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Parrish, Gamaliel | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Linn |
Farm at Route 1, Box 268, Brownsville |
Renter | No | no | Grasses, oats, wheat, orchard. | Ryegrass. | No |
640 acres in original farm. 201.14 acres in present farm |
Sunday, November 30, 1969 | 1970 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson's widow | Nobel Co., Ohio | 2 | ||||||||||
CFR0402 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Smith, Absalom and Hylah Smith | 1848 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
Sec 11, 12, 13, 14 T 7 S R 5 W |
Polk |
7 1/2 miles NE of Dallas in the Smithfield community |
Smith, Hardin | No | Grain, cattle. | Grain; Cattle. | No |
Founder of Smithfield. 641.75 acres of original farm still in the family. Chain of ownership: Absalom & Hylah Smith; to Samuel Thurston Smith (son); to Hardin Smith (grandson). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||
CFR0540 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Doherty, James G. | 1891 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
T 1 S R 26 E |
Morrow |
Blackhorse Canyon |
Doherty, Anthony J. | No | no | Cattle, horses, possibly... | Wheat, cattle. | No | Wednesday, November 30, 1994 | 1995 |
Application; Deeds. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Ireland | 1 | ||||||||||
CFR0670 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Schuttel, John and Rosa | 1888 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Clackamas |
1 mile south of Barton Bridge |
Strahm, Stanley A. | No | No - but barn is built from... | Grain, dairy cows. | Cattle, hay. | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Typewritten letter; Deeds; Photocopies of photograph; Newspaper article; Birth certificate. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | Missouri | 3 |