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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CFR0867 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Temple, William P. | 1884 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from William and Alice Kreemer |
Umatilla |
Stage Gulch |
Cresswell, Robert Temple; Cresswell, Donald M. | No | "Not sure. There is a... | Wheat | Wheat, Barley | No |
The original property has been divided twice. |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Family reunion brochure; Family history; Deed. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | grandson | Iowa | 1 | |||||||||
CFR0997 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Lines, John & Martha M. | 1864 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Linn | Lines, Russell | No | no | unknown | Grass seed, grain, livestock | No |
550 acres in original farm. 248 acres in present farm. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | South Carolina | 2 | |||||||||||
CFR0051 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Vonderahe, C. F. | 1857 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from Farley for $800 |
(see application for extensive land description) |
Clackamas | No | UPDATE: House & Summer... | Yes |
When C. F. Vonderahe died "the farm was divided between his children with the 51.90 acre tract gong to his daughter Julia Vonderahe Mueller and thence to her daughter, Louise Mueller Evans (my mother) and now to me." "The 54 acre tract went to the son." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Typewritten letter; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0054 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Jackson, Andrew and Mary | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
(see application for the description of the 4 parcels) |
Clackamas |
21/2 miles north of Marquam, Oregon |
Jackson, Kenneth Lloyd | No | No |
Applicant is the son of Clarence Frank Jackson, who was the son of Andrew and Mary Jackson. "My father Clarence Frank Jackson, who will be 96 on Aug. 3, was born and raised on our farm and is still living." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 1 | |||||||||||||
CFR0977 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Gates, John Wesley and Minnie M. | 1897 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from a cooperation |
1 N 3 W sections 25, 26 |
Washington |
32670 NW Hornecker Rd. |
Gates, Spencer C. | No | A grainary still stands. It... | Wheat, Hay, Oats, Barley,... | Grass seed, Hay, Wood lot | No | Tuesday, November 30, 1999 | 2000 |
Application; Statement of affirmation; Deed. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | great grandson | Burt County, Nebraska | 2 | |||||||||
CFR0978 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Koehnke, John | 1898 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from Ludwig and Ida Schwanke |
1 S Range 5 W Section 27 |
Washington |
5.5 miles south of Cornelius on Dixon Mill Rd. |
Koehnke, John N. | No | None of the original... | Dairy cows, Grain, Oats,... | Wheat, Oats, Clover | No | Tuesday, November 30, 1999 | 2000 |
Application; Statement of affirmation; Public notice; Deeds. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | great grandson | Germany | Germany | 2 | ||||||||
CFR0885 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Jasper, Merrel C. | 1868 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased several parcels of land. |
10 acres in the SE quarter of section 15, south range 39, E of the Williamette Meridian |
Union |
house and 1/2 the acres on Boothe Lane, 3 miles east of Hwy 82. 1/2 the acres on both side of Lower Cove highway, 4 miles E of Hwy 82. |
Jones, Edna; Jones, John T.; Jones, Rodney; Jones, Brian; Jones, Douglas | No | None of the original... | horses, mules, cattle, swine | wheat, barley, alfalfa | No |
Applicant not sure if the original farm was ever divided. |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Excerpt from "History of Union and Wallowa Counties"; Farm history; Event notice; Newspaper articles. Letter by Edna Jasper Jones on family history. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | grand graddaughter | Missouri | 3 | ||||||||
CFR0341 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Stevens, Hanson | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #3059 | No | No |
116 acres T6 S, R 1 W |
Marion |
3 miles west of Mt. Angel, Oregon. Located on the west bank of the Pudding River |
Renter | No | No |
Hanson Stevens passed the property to Isaac Stevens, who passed the property to Willard Stevens -- the father of the applicant. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
1960 state fair celebration registration form; Typewritten letter; Notarized ownership document; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | Keokuk, Iowa | 0 | |||||||||||
CFR0340 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hibbard, K. L. | 1878 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
15 acres |
Marion | Starr, Fenton; Starr, Faye | No | Nuts | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0344 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hunt, George Washington | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
160 acres at section 23 T8 R 1 W |
Marion |
4 miles NE of Sublimity, Oregon |
Tate, Helen Hunt; Tate, Henry J. | No | At time of application:... | No |
120 acres of current land is seeded to Chewing Fescue and Highland Bent grass. Fifty hed of sheep are pastured. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1957 |
Application; Notarized ownership document (includes story of the family and how the property has been used). |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 |