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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CFR0917 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Schmeltzer, Conrad K. | 1878 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | certificate #779, Oregon City | No | Washington | Schmeltzer, John Demory; Schmeltzer family | No | None of the original... | prunes, walnuts | At time of application:... | No |
Extensive notes for each question in the original application. Please see application for more details. |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Homestead certificate; Deed; Typewritten letters. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | great grandson | Pennsylvania | 2 | ||||||||||
CFR1048 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Kerslake, Robert | Hilltop Produce Farms, LLC | 1893 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
T 1, R 4, S 6 |
Multnomah | Kerslake, Kenneth R.; Kerslake, Kurtis R. | No | No | Friday, November 30, 2001 | 2002 |
Deeds; Family history; Copies of photos. |
No | No | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
SFR0012 | Download Application (PDF) | Sesquicentennial Ranch | King, John | 1849 | 119.00 | 312.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Marion |
Hwy 214 Silver Falls Hwy at the 20 mile post |
10 miles | Sublimity | Scott, Guy; Scott, Mary Ann | No | Grains; Grass seed; Hops;... | Christmas trees; Pasture;... | No | Sunday, October 28, 2007 | 2008 |
Application; Statement of affirmation; Handwritten family history narrative; Ancestral chart; Newspaper articles; Family and farm history; Copies of photographs |
Yes | Yes | MSS ORCFRP | Great-great grandson of John King. | Iowa | 1 | ||||||||||
CFR0076 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Baker, Endymion | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Clackamas | Baker, Sidney E. | No | Filberts; Grain; Hops. | Alta Fescue, Grass. | No | Monday, November 30, 1959 | 1960 |
Application; Typewritten letter. |
No | No | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
CFR0494 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Fendall, Charles E. & Amanda Fendall | 1857 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Yamhill |
4 miles NW of Willamina |
Mendenhall, Riley Ward; Mendenhall, Elizabeth | No | Buildings on an adjoining... | No |
628 acres in original farm. 113 acres in present farm. Charles Fendall; to W. E. Fendall (son) & Philip R Fendall (son); Richard Fendall (Philip's son); to Riley Ward Mendenhall (son of Roxie Fendall, daughter of Riley Fendall, brother of Philip). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit; Handwritten letter; Newspaper articles. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0357 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Esson, Alexander & Christina Stevens | Maple Hill Farm | 1866 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Marion | Ewing, Evanelle Esson; Renter. | No | No. Ida Esson Memorial... | beef cattle, pigs, corn, oats... | sheep, horses, strawberries,... | No |
In 1861 Alexander Esson purchased the first portion of this farm from Joseph & Virginia Cox. (This is different land) In 1866 he purchased additional land from Milton & Celia B. Young, which was a portion of the John C. Carey DLC. 320 acres in original and present farm. ***8/31/15 Update actual founding date is 1866, as the land purchased from Cox is different than the land from Milton Young (deed is being supplied for records which is the origination of the farm), the property purchased in 1861 was sold prior to purchase of this farm in 1866. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Email correspondence; Handwritten notes; Deed. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1605 | granddaughter | Scotland via New York | 2 | ||||||||||
CFR0495 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Morris, Eliam | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Yamhill |
2 miles W of Yamhill on the North Yamhill River |
Morris, Leo R.; Morris, Crystal B. | No | Original buildings still... | No |
230 acres in present farm. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0627 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Wendt, Henry | 1872 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Baker | Wendt, Harlan H. | No | no | Hay, cattle, grain, potatoes... | Hay, cattle, grain. | No |
160 acres in original farm. 160 acres in present farm. |
Sunday, November 30, 1975 | 1976 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | County Lirra Det Mold, Germany | 3 | |||||||||||
CFR0757 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Overton, George D. | 1860 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Linn |
7 miles South on Gap Road |
Thomas, Shirley A. | No | 1 barn. Some corner logs of... | Livestock, cattle, horses. | Cattle | No |
800 acres in present farm. |
Sunday, November 30, 1975 | 1976 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | great granddaughter | New York | 0 | ||||||||||
CFR0886 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Wade, Pharris | 1883 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Union | No | None of the original... | Didn't farm the land... | Wheat, barley, oats, peas,... | No |
The original farm has never been divided. |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Newspaper articles. |
No | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | grandson | Illinois | 3 |