| 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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| CFR0404 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Ridgeway, John | 1846 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim # 43 | No | No |
Sec 20, 21, 28, 29 T 6 S R 6 W |
Polk |
Mill Creek |
No | No |
Chain of ownership: John Ridgeway to William Ridgeway (son) and Mary E. Ridgeway (daughter); to Mary C. Stewart (daughter of William). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | Missouri | 0 | ||||||||||||
| CFR0320 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Miller, George B. | 1855 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from Charles Stewart |
Marion |
4 miles W of Gervais. |
Miller, B. J. J.; Miller, Nora | No | Brush, Timber | Crop land, Diversified... | No |
Applicant currently owns 96 acres of the original 786 acres property. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement;1959 state fair celebration registration form; 1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | son | crossed the plains in 1852 | 2 | ||||||||||
| CFR0235 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Slate, John T.; Slate, Frances | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Notification 2002 claim No.59 | No | No |
township 12 south, R 4 W |
Linn | No | No |
John and Frances Slate heired property to Porter Slate, who then passed it to M. C. Slate (father of applicant) and then to applicant. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great 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 | ||||||||||
| CFR0508 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Conner, Nathan & Elizabeth Buell Conner | 1848 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Yamhill |
4 miles SE of Sheridan in both Polk & Yamhill County on Ballston & Sheridan Road. |
Smith, Robert C.; Smith, Goldia A. | No | Second Conner home built in... | No |
640 acres in original farm divided into 6 "home" farms. Nathan & Elizabeth Conner to N. M. (son) & Clara B. Conner to N. E. Conner (grandson) to Robert C. Smith (great grandson). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit; Handwritten note. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||
| CFR0057 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Kruse, John | Walberta Farm | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from a homesteader |
Section 183, S1E |
Clackamas | Kruse, Elmer W.; Kruse, Calvin W. | No | No |
"John Kruse, a steamboatman, bought the 208-acre farm in 1852. It is now owned by three generations of his descendants: his son Homer A. Kruse's widow, Rosa A. Kruse; his grandson Elmer W. Krue & wife Anna; and his gr.gdson Roger Kruse." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Typewritten letter; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| CFR0337 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Anderson, James Mechlin | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #777 Oregon City | No | No |
181 acres |
Marion |
5 miles NW of Jefferson, 12 miles S of Salem |
No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement; 1959 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| CFR0156 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hale, Calvin T. | 1853 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim # 37 | No | No |
Sec 23 T 17 S R 7 W, W.M. |
Lane | Hale, Farmer C. | No | No |
Farm consists of over 100 acres of original DLC. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Letter of approval; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||
| CFR0073 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Wright, Harrison | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
Tax lot 24, Harrison Wright DLC T 4 S R 2E W.M. (containing 13 acres) |
Clackamas | Wright, Alfred T. | No | No |
Harrison Wright had a son Reuben Wright, who then had a son Alfred Wright (the applicant). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| CFR0090 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Morrison, Robert | 1845 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Clatsop | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Newspaper articles |
No | No | 0 |
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