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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CFR0011 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Elliott, William H. | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #40 | No | No |
T 11 S R 4 W |
Benton | Elliott, Darrell | No | Yes |
"My husband's great grandfather William H. Elliott traded a yoke of oxen for the Homestead rights to the original Donation Land Claim." Applicant still has 90 acres of the original DLC. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Typewritten letters. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson and his wife | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0373 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Jenne family | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
T 1 S R 2 E |
Multnomah | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Typewritten letters. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
CFR0291 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Morris, William and Elizabeth | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Marion |
situated between Turner and Marion in Marion County |
No | No |
William Morris married for a second time to Martha Funston. They had a daughter Ada Crawford (applicant), who received a portion of the original DLC. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Typewrittten letters. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaugther (Ada), great grandson (E. L.) | Currituck, North Carolina | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0199 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Froman, Isaac R.; Froman Eliza Jane | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
Sec 22 T 11 S R 3 W, containing 87.06 acres |
Linn | No | No |
7.5 acres in present farm. Applicant's sister, Zella M. Burkhart retains the balance of the original farm. Property inherited from Lola A. Burkhart, direct heir of founder. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Typewritten letter; 1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0109 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Applegate, Jessie | 1857 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Douglas | McKirdy, Walter R. | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
CFR0474 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Everest, Richard | 1846 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Notification # 1474, Claim # 52 | No | No |
T 3 S R 2 W |
Yamhill |
1/2 mile E of Newberg |
Everest, Archie C.; Everest, Esther O. | No | No |
Chain of ownership: Richard Everest 1846 to 1860; Reuben Everest (son) to 1895; part to Walter (grandson) to 1954; to Archie Everest (great grandson) and his 3 brothers to date. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | 0 | ||||||||||||
CFR0028 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Nobel, Henry & Mercy | 1848 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Benton | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 | No | No | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
CFR0392 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Blair, Thomas R. & Emmaline Buell Blair | 1848 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Polk |
on Mill Creek |
No | No |
Chain of ownership: Thomas & Emmaline Blair to Cyrus Blair to Madie Hayes and three sisters and two brothers. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0308 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hunt, Thomas J., Sr. | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
T 4 S R 2 W |
Marion | Hunt, P. C.; Hunt, Ida | No | No |
Applicant claims that the original property was 850 acres. Applicant currently owns 30 acres. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Handwritten letter. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandfather | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0218 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hawley, Ira | 1856 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Linn |
4 miles SE of Halsey on the "Twin Butte" Road |
No | No |
Land deeded to Lena McFarland in 1892 when she was 12 years old. More land was purchased in 1866. Current deed under the name Lena S. Veatch, who remarried and is now Lena S. McFarland. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
1959 state fair celebration registration form; Handwritten and typewritten letters; Notarized ownership document. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 |