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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CFR0304 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Heater, L. D. | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Marion | Heater, Maurice; Morrison, Lenora Heater | No | No |
Adolph Heater owns 10 acres of original DLC. Maurice Heater owns 140 acres of original DLC. Lenora Heater Morrison owns 80 acres of original DLC. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Handwritten letter |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | all of the applicants are the grandchildren of L. D. Heater | 0 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0213 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Jackson, Willis | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
Sec 10 T 12 S R 3 W, containing 320 acres |
Linn | Jackson, Harold K. | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 1 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0491 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Everest, Richard & Jane | 1845 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim # 52 | No | No | Yamhill |
1 mile E of Newberg on Portland Road |
Lichtenthaler, Maude; Lichtenthaler, Leonard D. | No | No |
4 acres in present farm. Chain of ownership: Richard Everest sold part of farm to William Everest (son) in 1858; to Maude Everest Lichtenthaler (?). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0041 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Albright, Daniel | 1857 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased |
Clackamas | Albright, George W. | No | UPDATE: Farm Group, built in... | Yes |
Daniel Albright gave property to his son Edward Albright who then gave it to his son George Albright (applicant). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; 1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||
CFR0321 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | McKay, James and Cecilia | 1848 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Marion | Merten, Maurice H.; Merten, Mary McKay | No | No |
The applicant and her husband currently farm 142 acres of the original property. The first grist mill in Oregon was built and operated by James McKay on the property. The applicant has a piece of the original mill stone in the yard of her home. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Handwritten letter; Notarized statement. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0236 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Sprenger, Nicholas | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
section 31 T 12 S R 3 W -- 320 acres. |
Linn |
2 miles N of Shedd and east of highway 99 |
No | No |
Nicholas Sprenger died 8 Nov 1871, and passed 212 acres to this son Henry Sprenger. Henry (father of applicant) died 1938, and the applicant was heired 176 acres. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavits; Typewritten letter. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0141 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Chavner, Thomas | 1856 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Sec 10 T 36 S R 1 E. | No | Yes |
Purchased more land later and added it to original property. |
T 36 R 3 W Sections 14-15, 22-23 about 700 acres total |
Jackson | Thompson, Chavner | No | Hay, Grain, Cattle, Pasture | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Newspaper article. Memo re: ownership. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 1 | |||||||||||||
CFR0509 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Grahm, William & wife | 1849 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Paid $100 to Gen. Parmer for squatter's rights to Section. |
Yamhill |
7 miles SE of McMinnville. |
No | 1/2 in prairie and 1/2 on... | No |
200 acres in present farm. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit; 1959 and 1960 state fair celebration registration forms. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 3 | |||||||||||||
CFR0338 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Savage, John M. and Jane | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #43, claim no. 259 | No | No |
250 acres |
Marion |
Victor Point |
Savage, Vera E. | No | At time of application: Grass... | No |
Applicant is the wife of A. J. Savage, the grandson of John and Jane Savage. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | wife of grandson | 0 |