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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CFR0055 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Kirchem, Mathias and Elizabeth | 1869 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | No |
Section 34 and 35, T 2S R3E |
Clackamas | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Typewrittten letter; Handwritten notes; 1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
CFR0335 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Riches, George P. S. and Mary J. | 1849 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
639.39 acres sections 26, 27, 34, 35 of T7S R1W |
Marion |
12 miles E of Salem in Waldo Hills |
No | No |
George Riches gave the land to his son Charles R. Riches, who became the owner of 373 acres. Applicant is his daughter, and owns 1/7 of original farm (53 acres). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement; Handwritten letter. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0154 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Benson, Sarah S. | 1851 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim # 42 | No | No |
Sec 17 T 17 S R 3 W, W.M. |
Lane | Cox, Lillian Ayres | No | No |
40 acres of original DLC in present farm. Chain of ownership: Sarah S. Benson 1851-1899; Mary E. Ayres to 1927; Lillian Ayres Cox to date. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Letter of approval. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0071 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Jackson, George W. | 1849 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Clackamas | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 | No | No | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
CFR0434 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Mesplie, Theodore | 1851 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Wasco | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Newspaper article |
No | No | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
CFR0451 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Marsh, John (originally Hayward) | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Washington | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 | No | No | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
CFR0005 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Belknap, Ransom A. | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Benton |
near the town of Monroe |
Belknap, Foster G. | No | House built in 1855 remains,... | No |
Part of the farm was sold during the years, but the 40 acres where the original home was placed is owned by applicant. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
There is a letter by M. M. Belknap who supports his brother's claim to Century Farm status. Letter contains some family history information. Notarized ownership document; Letter from M. M. Belknap; 1959 and 1960 state fair celebration registration forms. |
Yes | No | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0103 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Wilson, W. H.; Wilson, Hannah Dickinson | 1849 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Douglas | Brant, Addie Wilson | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; 1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
CFR0468 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Allen, Solomon | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Yamhill |
3 miles SE of Amity on the Bethel Road. |
A renter | No | Two dwellings, a large barn... | Grain, hay, fruit, sheep. | No |
339 acres in present farm. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | ||||||||||||
CFR0021 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Locke, A. N. | 1857 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #41 | No | No |
T 11S R5W |
Benton | Locke, Nelson | No | No |
At the time of the application, the applicant was farming the original 273 acres. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | 0 |