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 |
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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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CFR0317 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Bashaw, Joseph | 1846 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #47 | No | No |
sections 19, 20, 29, 30 in T 9 S R 3 W |
Marion | Son of applicant | No | General farm | No |
Original property was 460 acres. Current applicant owns 160 acres of this land. Original property passed from son of Joseph Bashaw to present owner. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | ||||||||||||
CFR0230 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Russell, Newton & Susan L. | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No. 41 in Sec 33 & 34 T 13 S R 1 E and Sec 3 & 4 T 14 S R 1 E, W.M., containing 322 acres. | No | No | Linn | Russell, Edgar S. | No | No |
Oliver H. Russell, Newton Russell's son, was deed 119 acres; this was eventually purchased by his son, Edgar Russell. 19 acres of the original farm are still operated by the family. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; 1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Illinois | 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 | |||||||||||
CFR0505 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Rowland, Jeremiah | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
Sec 14 T 3 S R 4 W |
Yamhill |
3 1/2 miles NE of Carlton |
No | 42 acres in cultivation and... | No |
57.85 acres in present farm "Jeremiah Roland, father of Green L. Rowland, took up DLC. 30 acres of this was donated to Green L. Rowland who later purchased 340 acres (1847) |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit; 1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0054 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Jackson, Andrew and Mary | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
(see application for the description of the 4 parcels) |
Clackamas |
21/2 miles north of Marquam, Oregon |
Jackson, Kenneth Lloyd | No | No |
Applicant is the son of Clarence Frank Jackson, who was the son of Andrew and Mary Jackson. "My father Clarence Frank Jackson, who will be 96 on Aug. 3, was born and raised on our farm and is still living." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 1 | |||||||||||||
CFR0335 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Riches, George P. S. and Mary J. | 1849 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
639.39 acres sections 26, 27, 34, 35 of T7S R1W |
Marion |
12 miles E of Salem in Waldo Hills |
No | No |
George Riches gave the land to his son Charles R. Riches, who became the owner of 373 acres. Applicant is his daughter, and owns 1/7 of original farm (53 acres). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement; Handwritten letter. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 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 | |||||||||||||
CFR0071 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Jackson, George W. | 1849 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Clackamas | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 | No | No | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
CFR0434 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Mesplie, Theodore | 1851 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Wasco | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Newspaper article |
No | No | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
CFR0451 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Marsh, John (originally Hayward) | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Washington | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 | No | No | 0 |