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 |
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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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CFR1195 | Benjamin Schuster Kerns | Kerns Ranches | 1899 | 4,000.00 | 1,800.00 | 1,800 original, 300 Ft Klamath and 3,000 in CA | No | No | Yes |
Deed |
T 39, R 8, S 27 |
Klamath |
9350 Hwy 66, Klamath Falls, OR 97601 |
7 | Klamath Falls | E.G. Kerns Ranches LLC | No | Cattle and grass hay | Cattle, alfalfa hay, grass... | No |
Family history, photos, legal documents |
No | Yes | OSU | great, great grandson | New Jersey | 2 | |||||||||||
CFR0962 | Download Application (PDF) | Unknown | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Union | No | No | No | No | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
CFR0030 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Schultz, George | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
80 acres in S.E. 1/4 of SW 1/4 of SW1/4 S.E. 1.4 of section 35 T 14 R 5 |
Benton | No | No |
After death of George Schultz, property was passed to Dallas Harpole then to the applicants mother, then to applicant in 1952. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1957 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0344 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hunt, George Washington | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
160 acres at section 23 T8 R 1 W |
Marion |
4 miles NE of Sublimity, Oregon |
Tate, Helen Hunt; Tate, Henry J. | No | At time of application:... | No |
120 acres of current land is seeded to Chewing Fescue and Highland Bent grass. Fifty hed of sheep are pastured. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1957 |
Application; Notarized ownership document (includes story of the family and how the property has been used). |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | ||||||||||||
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 |