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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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 | |||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||
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 | ||||||||
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 | |||||||||||||
CFR0142 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Chavner, Thomas | 1856 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | Yes |
More land was purchased at a later date. |
Jackson | Thompson, Margaret Chavner | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application |
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 | ||||||||
CFR0143 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Ross, John England & Elizabeth | 1854 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Jackson | No | No | Sunday, November 30, 1958 | 1959 |
Typewritten letter; 1959 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | Grandchild | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
CFR0144 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Ross, John E. & Elizabeth | 1854 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Jackson | No | No | Sunday, November 30, 1958 | 1959 | No | No | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
CFR0145 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Brown, Henry R. | 1859 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Jackson | Bradshaw, Merton | No | Hay; Horses. | At time of application: Hay;... | No | Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; Memo; Certification of ownership. |
No | Yes | 0 |