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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CFR0385 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Porterfield, Amax | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Polk | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 | No | No | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
CFR0302 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Jones, S. W. R. | 1854 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Marion | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 | No | No | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
CFR0994 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hale, Captain | 1856 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Lane | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
1960 state fair celebration registration forms; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
CFR0210 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hamilton, Joseph & Caroline | 1848 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Linn | Hamilton, John; Hamilton, J.A. | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
CFR0489 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Lamson, Jeramiah | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
T 2 S R 7 W |
Yamhill |
1 mile W of Willamina |
Lamson, Edward D.; Lamson, Florence A. | No | Barn framed of hand hewn... | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0402 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Smith, Absalom and Hylah Smith | 1848 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
Sec 11, 12, 13, 14 T 7 S R 5 W |
Polk |
7 1/2 miles NE of Dallas in the Smithfield community |
Smith, Hardin | No | Grain, cattle. | Grain; Cattle. | No |
Founder of Smithfield. 641.75 acres of original farm still in the family. Chain of ownership: Absalom & Hylah Smith; to Samuel Thurston Smith (son); to Hardin Smith (grandson). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||
CFR0318 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Skaife, John and Mariette | 1854 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Marion |
7 miles W of Gervais on Fairfield road |
Marthaler, Freeman | No | General farming, Cattle,... | No |
Applicant's mother Margaret Ann Skaife Marthaler was born in the log cabin on the property. Original owners came from Missouri by oxen wagon in 1854 and lived near Woodburn a short time before settling on the farm. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0319 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Minto, John and Martha Ann | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Marion |
23 acres lying on Sunnyside Road, South of Salem 5 miles. |
McNerney, Ernestine M. | No | Pasture, Dairy cows (... | No |
Land was passed to applicant's mother Mary Minto Halley and then to the applicant. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0233 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Shelton, Haman | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
T 10 S R 1 E containing about 160 acres. |
Linn |
E. of Scio |
Shelton, Vardie E. | No | No |
Property was passed to Haman Shelton II, and then to applicant. The applicant has sold 5 acres of the original land, now owning 155 acres. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||
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 |