| 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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| CFR0034 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Currier, J. M. | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | # 39 | No | No |
T 13 S, R 5 W |
Benton | No | No |
At the time of the application, the property consisted of over 500 acres still farmed by the applicant. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Typewritten letter. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| CFR0397 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Ritner, Sebastian R.; Ritner, Sarah | 1844 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Certification # 4582 & Certification # 4728 | No | No |
Sec 4, 5, 8, 9 T 10 S R 6 W, W.M., containting 320.58 acres (Sebastian Ritner). Sec 5 T 10 S R 6 W, W.M., containing 159.75 acres (Sarah Ritner) |
Polk | No | No |
Chain of ownership: Sebastian & Sarah Ritner to John Ritner (son) to Rittie Kerber (granddaughter) |
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 | granddaughter | Switzerland | 3 | |||||||||||||
| CFR0313 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Moisan, Thomas | 1842 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Marion |
SE of Brooks, Oregon |
Renter | No | The original house is still... | Grain, Seed | No |
80 acres of grain and seed are currently raised. Applicant lives on the land, but the land is being rented. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement; Newspaper articles. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | ||||||||||||
| CFR0224 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Ketchum, Walter M. & Laura | 1851 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
Sec 8, 9, 10, 16, 17 of T 11 S R 2 W, containing 639.91 acres. |
Linn | Mullen, Harold K.; Mullen, Lydia | No | No |
On the death of Walter and Laura Ketchum the land went to C. S. Mullen, husband of Emma Ketchum. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| CFR0050 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Callahan, Clifton | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
T 5S R2E |
Clackamas | Durant, Edna M. | No | No |
Clitfon Callahan's daughter Julia F. Staudinger was given 632 acres of land. Julia's daughter (applicant) was passed the property and she now owns 32.83 acres of land. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| SFR0018 | Download Application (PDF) | Sesquicentennial Farm | Montgomery, William Grimes; Montgomery, Mary L. | Montgomery Homestead Farm | 1857 | 318.00 | 145.00 | Yes | Certificate #2671, Linn County | No | No |
T 10S, R 1W, S 2 |
Linn |
4111X block of Ridge Drive, Scio, OR, inside 90 degree turn of Ridge Dr from E to N. |
6.5 miles | Stayton | Montgomery, Leland R. | No | Original house and other... | Apples; Hay; Oats; Pasture;... | Grass seed; Hay | No | Saturday, October 18, 2008 | 2009 |
Application; Statement of affirmation; Family history narrative; Letter from Oregon Historical Society; Handwritten family history narrative; Copies of photographs; Copy of original Donation Land Claim certificate; Metsker maps |
Yes | Yes | MSS ORCFRP | Great-great-grandson of William Grimes Montgomery | Kentucky | ||||||||
| CFR0413 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Vandevort, William | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | E 1/2 of Sec 7 in T 7 S R 3 W | No | No | Polk | Vaughn, Ruth E. | No | no | grain, hay, dairy, poultry | beef cattle, permanent pasture | No |
DLC deeded to Adam S. Hamilton in 1850. 320 acres in original farm. 23 acres in present farm. Original farm divided 4 times. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Genealogy (for Addie Vandevort); Family birth record; Donation Land Claim deed (for Adam Hamilton). |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | great granddaughter | 1 | |||||||||||
| CFR0346 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Brotl, Jacob and Virginia | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #6030, cert. # 971 | No | No |
applicant has 156 acres of original 320 acre tract in section 6 T 6S R 1 E |
Marion |
4 miles E of Mt. Angel and 2 miles S of Monitor on the Scotts Mills-Monitor Road. On Butte Creek |
No | No |
When Jacob Brotyl and wife Virginia divorced in 1858, land was re-deeded in wife's name and then she remarried and became Virginia White. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||
| CFR0167 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | McFarland, John Ward | 1853 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim # 59 | No | No |
Parts of Sections 19, 20, 29 and 30 of T 20 S R 3 W, W.M. |
Lane | Scott, Ethel Chrisman | No | Survey notes show the John W... | No |
280 acres of DLC in present farm. Chain of ownership: John Ward McFarland 1853 to 1880; Sophronia McFarland to 1932; Anna L. Chrisman to 1944; Ethel Chrisman Scott to date. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Letter of approval; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great granddaughter | 0 | ||||||||||||
| CFR0281 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Anderson, James Mechlin | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim # 50, Notification #631, Ded #777 | No | No |
T 9 S, R 3 W |
Marion |
5 miles W of Jefferson on Anberny Hill Road |
Anderson, James W.; Anderson, Ruth M. | No | House built in 1855 still... | Crop land (35 acres), Pasture... | No |
Current applicant ownes 91 acres. Part of the land is rented out. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized ownership document.
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No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson (James) | Fairfield County, Ohio | 0 |
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