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 |
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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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CFR0035 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Harris, John | 1853 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #43 | No | No | Benton | Whitby, Harold R.; Whitby, Jack | No | No |
Property was passed upon death of John Harris to daughter Mary Harris Whitby, then to the applicant, and then to his son and daughter (Jack Harold Whitby and Isabel Whitby Smith). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; 1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 3 | ||||||||||||||
SFR0003 | Download Application (PDF) | Sesquicentennial Farm | Jenkins, Stephen | Ford Farms, Inc. | 1853 | 641.00 | 500.00 | 0 | Yes | DLC #44 | No | No |
T 18S, R 5W, S 22 |
Lane |
26900 Crow Rd., Eugene, OR 97402 |
8 miles | Eugene | Ford Farms Inc. | No | Family cemetery, with... | Corn; Grains; Grass; Hay;... | Pasture; Timber; Cattle;... | No | Monday, October 29, 2007 | 2008 |
Application; Statement of affirmation; Map of property |
No | Yes | MSS ORCFRP | 5th - 7th generations (11 family shareholders) formed in family corporation, Ford Farms, Inc. | 3 | |||||||
CFR0398 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Walker, Clayebourne C.; Walker, Louisa | 1845 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Notification # 151, Claim # 821 | No | No |
Sec 24, 19, 20 T 6 S R 4 W, W.M., containing 636.89 acres. |
Polk |
near Zena |
No | No |
Chain of ownership: Louisa & Claybourne Walker, 441.74 acres; to C. M. Purvine (nephew of Louisa Walker), 238 acres; to Byron J. Purvine (grandnephew), 1/3 interest in the 238 acres and bought another 1/3 interest from his brother Walker R. Purvine. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
1959 state fair celebration registration form; Affidavit; Oregon State Archives Record of DLC Certificates; Handwritten letters. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandnephew | Virginia (C.C. Walker), Illinois (Louisa Walker) | 0 | ||||||||||||
CFR0314 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Looney, Jessie and Reuby | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | claim #53 | No | No |
sections 23, 24, 25, 26 T 9 S R 3 W |
Marion |
2.5 miles N of Jefferson |
Looney, Herbert; Renter. | No | No |
Original property contained 640 acres. Applicant owns 108 acres of the original land grant. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement; 1960 state fair celebration registration form; Newspaper articles. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | unknown | 0 | ||||||||||||
CFR0226 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Sprenger, Nicholas B. | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
Sec 31 T 12 S R 3 W |
Linn |
1 1/2 miles N of Shedd |
Pugh, Lena Sprenger | No | No |
At the death of Nicholas Sprenger, the land was divided among his children. 35 acres went to his son Henry B. Sprenger |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0131 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Dean, Nathaniel C. | Willow Springs Farm | 1851 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Jackson |
207-A located 3 miles W of Central Point |
Dean, Frank C.; Dean, Olive | No | At time of application: Hay;... | No |
"The Deans lived here on this farm 100 years. Nathaniel Dean and Annie Hoston were married here 15 Nov. 1852, the first white couple married in Jackson county Oregon." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0763 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Davidson, Henry and Sarah | JH Davidson Farms | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | # 640 Oregon City | No | No | Linn |
28998 Hwy 99E Shedd, OR |
Davidson, Jeffrey H. | No | None of the original... | Grass seed, Sheep | No |
The original farm has never been divided. |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Typewritten letters; Handwritten letter. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | great grandson | Missouri | 3 | |||||||||
CFR0331 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Riches, George P. S. and Mary J. | 1849 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
sections 26, 27, 34, 35 of T 7S R1W originally 639.39 acres |
Marion |
212 acres that lie 12 miles E of salem in the Waldo Hills area |
Riches, Charles Robert; Riches, Martha L. | No | No |
Charles R. Riches, son of George and Mary, became owner of 373 acres of the original farm. Applicant is son of Charles, and owns 4/7 undivided interest in the said 373 acres. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0150 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | White, Samuel Wilson | 1855 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | DLC No 37 | No | No | Josephine |
7 miles from Kerbyville, 8 miles from Sailor Diggings, 6 miles from Browntown |
No | Timber | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Typewritten letters; Maps of original land claim; Newspaper articles. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | wife of Raymond White, who was grandson to Sam White | Cold Water, Michigan | 1 | |||||||||||||
CFR0067 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Voss, Joseph and Elizabeth | 1853 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
heirs are still living on the 319 and 92/100 acres in the East half of section 5, T 3S, R 1W |
Clackamas | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Typewritten and handwritten letters; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 |