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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CFR0401 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Ball, Isaac & Abigail Ball | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Notification # 1910, Claim # 38 | No | No | Polk | Sechrist, Cassie L.; Sechrist, John J. | No | Original farmstead located at... | No |
Chain of ownership: Isaac & Abigail Ball, 640 acres; to Lydia Elizabeth Ball Sears (12th daughter) and Van B. Sears; to Cassie L. Sechrist & John J. Sechrist. Of the 135 acres in present farm, 100 acres of the original farm are included. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Handwritten letters; Typewritten letter; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR1091 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Jensen, Anders | 1905 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
T 15S, R 4W, S 33 |
Lane | Gribskov Gammel Gaard, Inc. | No | Berries; Cherries; Crops for... | At time of application: Mint... | No | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 | 2005 |
Application; Statements of affirmation; Family emblem; Typewritten letter; Gribskov Empire song; Family history; Deeds; Articles of Incorporation; Newspaper articles; Photocopies of photographs. |
No | No | 0 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0317 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Bashaw, Joseph | 1846 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #47 | No | No |
sections 19, 20, 29, 30 in T 9 S R 3 W |
Marion | Son of applicant | No | General farm | No |
Original property was 460 acres. Current applicant owns 160 acres of this land. Original property passed from son of Joseph Bashaw to present owner. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | ||||||||||||
CFR0669 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Miley, Jacob | 1882 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
T 3 S R 1 W, Sec 24 & 25 |
Clackamas | Miley, William E. | No | no | Hops, apples. | Clover seed, wheat. | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Deed. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Born near Columbus, Ohio Sept. 25, 1838. He emigrated to Missouri in 1847 and joined the Bethel Colony at Bethel, MO. | 3 | |||||||||||
CFR1009 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Keerins, David | 1890 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | No | Grant |
Izee Oregon |
Keerins, Bonham (Irene W.); Keerins, Michael E. | No | no | Timber, pasture, sheep,... | Pasture, cattle, horses. | No | Thursday, November 30, 1995 | 1996 |
Application; Obituary; Typewritten letter; Grant County record of filings on land; Timber culture certificate; Biographical excerpt from "History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties." |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | niece-in-law & grandnephew | King County, Ireland | Irish | 3 | ||||||||||
CFR0230 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Russell, Newton & Susan L. | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No. 41 in Sec 33 & 34 T 13 S R 1 E and Sec 3 & 4 T 14 S R 1 E, W.M., containing 322 acres. | No | No | Linn | Russell, Edgar S. | No | No |
Oliver H. Russell, Newton Russell's son, was deed 119 acres; this was eventually purchased by his son, Edgar Russell. 19 acres of the original farm are still operated by the family. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; 1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Illinois | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0138 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hanley, Michael | Hanleylands | 1857 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from the Clinton and Welton Donation claims. |
T 37 R2W Sections 21, 22, 27,28 consists of about 197 acres |
Jackson |
about 3.5 miles NW from Jacksonville |
Heffernan, Robert D., Jr. | No | No |
"My mother, Katheryn E. Heffernan, deeded me 28 acres in the fall of 1957." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | 2 | |||||||||||
CFR0506 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Sawyer, Mark & Susannah James | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim # 59 | No | No |
Sec 28 T 5 S R 3 W |
Yamhill | Shelburne, Erma S.; Warmington, Elsie S. | No | No |
29 acres in present farm. "Our great grandmother left her daughter, Evangeline's, share to her children, our father & his 2 sisters. After our grandfather's death the property was divided and our father left his share to us." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit; 1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great granddaughters | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0848 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Lieuallen, Josiah | 1864 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Umatilla | No | No | Friday, November 30, 1979 | 1980 | No | No | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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 |