| 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 |
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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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| CFR0131 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Dean, Nathaniel C. | Willow Springs Farm | 1851 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Jackson |
207-A located 3 miles W of Central Point |
Dean, Frank C.; Dean, Olive | No | At time of application: Hay;... | No |
"The Deans lived here on this farm 100 years. Nathaniel Dean and Annie Hoston were married here 15 Nov. 1852, the first white couple married in Jackson county Oregon." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| CFR0133 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Dunn, Patrick | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim No. 56 | No | No |
T 39 R 1 E Section 13 and 24 |
Jackson |
4.5 miles SE of Ashland, Oregon. Located at 4224 Hgy. 66 Ashland Ave. |
Dunn, George Edwin | No | At time of application: Grain... | No |
"My grandfather patrick Dunn took donation land claim. I think No. 56 in 1852. My father purchased land from him and still owns it. He retired from farm in 1920 and I have leased it and operated since then." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||
| CFR0134 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hanley, Michael | 1857 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased DLC rights from Clinton and Welton |
T 37 R2W Section 22 about 50 acres |
Jackson |
2.5 miles from Jacksonville on Hanley Road |
Hanley, Martha, Mary; Hanley, Claire | No | UPDATE: Farmstead built in... | Yes |
"This farm has remained in the same family for 101 years. From Michael Hanley to a daughter Alice E. Hanley then to her brother's daughters Claire, Martha, and Mary Hanley." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| CFR0137 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hanley, Michael | Hanleylands | 1857 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from the Clinton and Welton Donation claims. |
T 37 R2W Sections 21, 22, 27,28 consists of about 197 acres |
Jackson |
about 3.5 miles NW from Jacksonville |
Heffernan, Katheryn E. | No | No |
"My father took this this land under the will of Michael Hanley, his father, and the property was given to me by my brother Edward B. Hanley Jr. In the fall of 1957 I deeded 28 acres of this land to my son Robert D. Heffernan Jr." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Warranty deed; County records regarding boundary line. |
No | Yes | Mss1604 | granddaughter | 2 | |||||||||||
| CFR0138 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hanley, Michael | Hanleylands | 1857 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from the Clinton and Welton Donation claims. |
T 37 R2W Sections 21, 22, 27,28 consists of about 197 acres |
Jackson |
about 3.5 miles NW from Jacksonville |
Heffernan, Robert D., Jr. | No | No |
"My mother, Katheryn E. Heffernan, deeded me 28 acres in the fall of 1957." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | 2 | |||||||||||
| CFR0590 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Offenbacher, Fred and Minnie Offenbacher | 1898 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from George and Hattie Neuber |
Jackson |
Property divided into three lots. |
Offenbacher, Carl Ray; Offenbacher, Richard | No | None of the original... | cattle, grain, hay | alfalfa hay | No |
land currently owned by brothers Carl Ray Offenbacher and Richard Offenbacher |
Monday, November 30, 1998 | 1999 |
Included are copies of several property records, several tax statements, and a property map with the farm area outlined. Application; Statement of affirmation; Deed; Map. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | great grandson | Germany | Germany | 2 | ||||||||
| CFR0139 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Ross, Col. John England; Ross, Elizabeth | 1854 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim No. 69 | No | No | Jackson |
18 acres located in Jackson County; 2 miles westerly of Medford; on south side of Ross Lace at Griffin Creek |
Ross, Frank E.; Ross, Jocelyn P. | No | Alfalfa | No |
"heavy black soil of the best Rogue River Valley quality. Owner plans home which will make on or two homes on each of 17 subdivisions/ now constituting the original DLC of 320 acres." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1959 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | ||||||||||||
| CFR0140 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Brown, Henry R. | 1854 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Section 10, Township 36 South Range 1 East. Tax Lot 3400 | No | No | Jackson |
1.5 miles above the present Brownboro Store. Runs along Butte Creek for 1/2 miles on the left hand side. |
Bradshaw, Merton | No | no | hay, horses | hay, beef cattle | No |
At the time of the application (1958) the property was being leased to Merton Bradshaw. Merton Bradshaw applied for Century Farm Certification in 1965. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter (Isolee) | 0 | ||||||||||
| CFR0141 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Chavner, Thomas | 1856 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Sec 10 T 36 S R 1 E. | No | Yes |
Purchased more land later and added it to original property. |
T 36 R 3 W Sections 14-15, 22-23 about 700 acres total |
Jackson | Thompson, Chavner | No | Hay, Grain, Cattle, Pasture | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Newspaper article. Memo re: ownership. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| CFR0982 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Ranch | Messal Sr., William | 1880 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from Rosie Messal |
T 36 R2E Section 8 |
Jackson | Peile, Maxine | No | Original barn is still... | Hay, Cattle, Garden pigs | Cattle, Sheep, Pasture | No |
"Over the generations the ranch has been added to. It began as 160 acres, and is now 880 acres. There are 3 generations here now -- yet only Maxine lives on the original 160." |
Tuesday, November 30, 1999 | 2000 |
Application; Statement of affirmation; Handwritten letters; Newspaper article; Excerpt from "A History of Eagle Point"; Typewritten letter; Birth certificate; Marriage certificate; Chain of title; Deeds. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | great niece by marriage | Germany ["Schwaben - Colonic - Prenfsen"] ["Bayern Province"] | Germany | 1 |
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