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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CFR0988 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Wilson, Sebird | Elliot Ranches, Inc | 1885 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased Pre-empted Land through La Grande Land Office |
Baker |
1 Mile west of Bridgeport |
Elliott, Harry Newell; Lewis, Richard; Lewis, Barbara Elliott | No | The barn at the main ranch is... | Meadow hay, Cattle, Horses | Cattle, Hay, Alfalfa, Barley | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Statement form; Land certificate; Typewritten letter; 1990 Century Farm and Historic Lands awards. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | grandson | Inez, Kansas | 3 | |||||||||
CFR0665 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Berber, Jr., Jacob and Aurelia Gerber | 1883 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
See Attachment for complete discription. |
Clackamas | Dunn, Melinda; Dunn, Clinton | No | no | Christmas trees, grass seed. | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Statement form; Deeds. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandchild | Missouri | 1 | ||||||||||||
CFR0939 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Eischen, Mathias | 1887 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | T 1 S R 3 W Sec 29 | No | Washington |
6 miles south of Cornelius Road |
Eischen, Dave | No | House and barn. | Oats, potatoes, hay, wheat. | Orchard, cherries, prunes. | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Statement form; Deed from Oregon & California Railroad Company. Letter re Ludwig Holtz & Mathias Eischen claim dispute. Letter & receipts from the Oregon & California Railroad Company. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Belgium | 1 | ||||||||||
CFR0875 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Swaggart, A. Lincoln; Van Cleave, Mary Jane | 1889 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
N 1/2 of the NE 1/4 Sec 7 T 4 N R 35 E, W.M. |
Umatilla |
2 1/2 miles North of Athena |
Swaggart, Wayne; Perrine, Jim | No | no | Sheep, cattle, horses, hogs,... | Wheat, barley, oats, green... | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Rules for the 1990 Century Farm Program; Statement form; Handwritten letter and map; Homestead proof; Typewritten letter; Probate letters; Copy of will. Property tax statement. Grain Grower's Receipt. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | son | Lane County, Oregon | 0 | ||||||||||
CFR0794 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Singer, John | 1888 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
Part of Sr. M. Fackler DLC # 43, Notification # 915 in Sec 7 & 8 T 4 S R 1 W, W.M. |
Marion |
1 mile North of Donald, West side of road. |
Singer, John Henry | No | no | Hops, wheat, clover | Grass seed, sweet corn. | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Statement form; Typewritten letters; Deeds. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Indiana | 2 | ||||||||||
CFR0552 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Jernstedt, Frank Theodore | 1885 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Yamhill | Jernstedt, Ernest F. | No | no | Wheat, oats, hops. | Primarily Wheat and crimson... | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Narrative (farm history narrative); Deeds, birth certificates; Map. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | Grandchildren | Sweden via Kansas and Colorado | 1 | ||||||||||||
CFR0811 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Huston, Luther | 1885 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Morrow | Rill, William | No | One outhouse | Wheat, rye, horses. | Grass, pigs. | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Statement form; Phone message memo; Article on Ninon Rill. See "Stories of Century Farm Families in Morrow County" packet. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | Willamette Valley, Oregon | 4 | ||||||||||||
CFR0989 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Anderson, Frank O. | 1883 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased land from OR state that had been indentured land from William Owen |
Baker | Anderson, David M. | No | Barn, Grainary, and House are... | Shorthorn cattle, Hogs,... | Cattle, Grain, Hay | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Statement form; Typewritten letter; Deed; 1990 Century Farm and Historic Lands awards. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | great grandson | Nebraska | 1 | |||||||||||
CFR0666 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Johnson, Andrew | 1887 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Clackamas | Thronson, Ellen Johnson and family | No | Salt box house and granary. | Hay, oats, wheat, chickens,... | Sheep, beef cows, 15 chickens. | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Deed; Handwritten letter; Typewritten letter. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great niece | Sweden | 2 | ||||||||||||
CFR0940 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Meek, Stephen A. D. and Joseph Lane Meek | 1890 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
T 2 N R3W Sec 35, W.M. |
Washington |
Mountaindale Road, about 4 miles NW of North Plains, Washington Co. |
Zurcher, Ben; Zurcher, Marjorie (Meek) | No | no | Wheat | Christmas trees, sheep,... | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Abstract of Title. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | daughter | Oregon Territory | 2 |