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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CFR0744 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Corum, Samuel G. | 1881 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | pre-emption filing #3094 | No | Lake | Iverson, Lawrence; Iverson, Marjorie Corum | No | None of the original... | Oats, Rye, Horses, Cattle,... | Wild Hay, Alfalfa, Cattle | No | Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Handwritten letter; Typewritten letter; Non-mineral affidavit; Homestead records; Desert Land Act records; Farm history. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | granddaughter and grandson-in-law | Missouri | 3 | |||||||||||
CFR0873 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Olsen, Salve | Terjeson Ranches | 1888 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
SE 1/4 of Sec 17 T 5 N R 33 E, W.M. |
Umatilla |
7 miles North of Helix, Oregon. |
Terjeson, Kirk; Terjeson, Gunder; Terjeson, Richard | No | 90-foot well that Salve Olsen... | Wheat | Wheat | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Statement forms; Corroborated affidavit contesting ownership of property by Northern Pacific Railroad.; Typewritten letters. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandsons and grandson | Norway | 2 | |||||||||
CFR1003 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Gekeler, George O. | 1862 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | Certification # 118 | No |
E 1/2 of the SW 1/4 of Sec 9 T 3 S R 38 E, containing 80 acres. |
Union |
1 mile South of La Grande |
Smutz, Martha; Smutz, Robert | No | Original log cabin being... | Cattle, chickens, horses, hay... | Cattle, hay. | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Statement form; Family history; Homestead certificate; Deeds; Handwritten postcard. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | Martha Smutz's husband Richard's mother was a daughter of George Gekeler. | Pennsylvania to Nebraska | German | 1 | ||||||||
CFR0031 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Noble, Henry and Mercy | 1848 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No. 52 | No | No | Benton | No | No |
Land was sold by the Nobles to Noah A. Starr who gave it to his son Wilbur F. Starr, the father of the applicant. The land was then divided between the applicant and his sister, Claire W. Smith. There's 2 parcels of land. See application for description. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; 1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
CFR0164 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Mosby, David | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
Sec 36 T 20 S R 2 W, W.M., Sec 1 T 21 S R 3 W, W.M., Sec 31 T 20 S R 2 W, W.M. |
Lane | Mosby, Millard M.; Mosby, Mary Surphina Veatch | No | Survey notes cite the David... | No |
118.69 acres of DLC in present farm. Chain of ownership: David Mosby 1852 - 1892; Robert Henry Mosby to 1940; M. M. Mosby to date. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Typewritten letter; Letter of approval; 1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Pettis County, Missouri | 3 | ||||||||||||
CFR0311 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Jones, Fielding and Martha | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
section 4 in T 5 S R 1 W |
Marion |
One mile S. of Hubbard, Oregon. |
Jones, Grant | No | No |
Original property was 486 acres. The applicant owns 6.25 acres of this original claim. Of the original claim, 120 acres was passed down to Samuel R. Thurston jones (father of the applicant). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | pioneers of 1847 | 0 | ||||||||||||
CFR0444 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Denney, Thomas H. | 1848 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Washington | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
1959 state fair celebration registration form; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
CFR0582 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Wolfe, Captain Gideon | Wolfe Farm Inc. | 1897 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Wallowa | Wolfe, Stephen | No | At time of application: Grain... | No | Saturday, November 30, 1996 | 1997 |
Application; Statement form; Plot map; Deeds; Typewritten letters. |
No | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | Tennessee | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0712 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Weimar, John | Weimar Farm | 1886 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Gilliam | Weimar, John A.; Weimar, Michael W. | No | no | Wheat, hogs. | Wheat, barley, cattle. | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Statement form; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson and great grandson | California | 3 | |||||||||||
CFR0841 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Thompson, Charles W. | 1890 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | No | Sherman |
5 miles East of Moro on Monkland Road |
Thompson, Ronald D. | No | Barn. | Wheat, hay, cattle. | Wheat, barley. | No |
Owners of the Monkland farm: Donald D. Thompson 1/2; Norma Cushing 1/6; Lois Murphy 1/6; Priscilla Wilson 1/6. |
Tuesday, November 30, 1993 | 1993 |
Application; Statement form; Family genealogy; Photocopies of photographs (photo of Monkland, 1893, photo of C.W. Thompson & Family, 1893); Deeds; Homestead certificates. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | great great grandson | Iowa | 0 |