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 |
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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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CFR0509 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Grahm, William & wife | 1849 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Paid $100 to Gen. Parmer for squatter's rights to Section. |
Yamhill |
7 miles SE of McMinnville. |
No | 1/2 in prairie and 1/2 on... | No |
200 acres in present farm. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit; 1959 and 1960 state fair celebration registration forms. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 3 | |||||||||||||
CFR0640 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Skeels, Chester | 1875 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Benton | Hughson, Chester F. | No | no | 2 1/2 acres garden. Balance... | Alfalfa, grain, orchard,... | No |
72 acres in original farm. 33 acres 1/3 interest in 22 acres in present farm. |
Sunday, November 30, 1975 | 1976 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | Illinois | 2 | |||||||||||
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 | |||||||||
CFR0058 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Wright, Fred | Wright Century Farm | 1891 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Lane | Wright, Robert R. | No | Old cabin torn down in 1903... | Oats, barley, wheat, hay,... | Beef cattle, hay, pasture. | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Deeds; Typewritten letter; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Vermont | 3 | |||||||||||
CFR0195 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Bellinger, Francis | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Linn |
7 miles SE of Lebanon, on the Berlin-Lacomb Road, along Hamilton Creek |
Bellinger, Frank | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Typewritten letters. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 1 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0338 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Savage, John M. and Jane | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #43, claim no. 259 | No | No |
250 acres |
Marion |
Victor Point |
Savage, Vera E. | No | At time of application: Grass... | No |
Applicant is the wife of A. J. Savage, the grandson of John and Jane Savage. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | wife of grandson | 0 | |||||||||||
CFR0998 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Armstrong, George | 1873 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Benton | Plympton, Kathleen; Plympton, Fred G.; Renter | No | yes | Shopshire sheep (introduced... | Pasture. | No |
187.20 acres in original farm. 15 acres in present farm. |
Thursday, November 30, 1972 | 1973 |
Application; Handwritten notes. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | daughter | England | 1 | |||||||||||
CFR0159 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Huston, Henry C. | 1853 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim # 60 | No | No |
Sec 32 T 17 S R 5 W, W.M., containing 160 acres. |
Lane | Huston, Grover | No | No |
7.67 acres of original DLC in present farm. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Huston, Grover |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | unknown | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0306 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hunsaker, Thomas H. | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from the homestead of Samuel and Matilda Fields |
Marion |
3.5 miles SW of Turner |
No | At time of application: Fruit... | No |
The current farm is about 96 acres. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0439 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | McClure, Thomas J. | Stevens Century Farm | 1866 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Wasco | Stevens, A. E. (Mr. and Mrs.); McClure, Helen | No | A Box house, thought to be... | 12 acres of apple orchard,... | 13 acres of cherry orchard,... | No |
160 acres in original farm. 92.14 acres in present farm. |
Thursday, November 30, 1972 | 1973 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | "He was my grandfather's uncle." | Buchanan Co., Missouri | 2 |