| 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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| CFR0321 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | McKay, James and Cecilia | 1848 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Marion | Merten, Maurice H.; Merten, Mary McKay | No | No |
The applicant and her husband currently farm 142 acres of the original property. The first grist mill in Oregon was built and operated by James McKay on the property. The applicant has a piece of the original mill stone in the yard of her home. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Handwritten letter; Notarized statement. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| CFR0455 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Robinson, William J. | Robinson Farm | 1853 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Washington | No | Clover (hay); Grain; Timothy... | No |
See CFR0454 for additional info and co-owner. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Farm history; Newspaper article |
No | No | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| CFR0722 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Stone, Wells Wilcott and Eva Livonia Stone | 1882 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Grant | McKern, Jay E. | No | Orchard; Cattle; Horses;... | At time of application: Hay;... | No | Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
No | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| CFR0851 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Shumway, James S. | 1870 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Umatilla | No | No | Friday, November 30, 1979 | 1980 | No | No | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| CFR0288 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Moisan, Thomas | 1842 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Marion |
SE of Brooks, Oregon |
Renter | No | Grain (36 acres) | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized ownership document; Typewritten account.
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No | Yes | Mss 1604 | unknown | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| CFR0142 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Chavner, Thomas | 1856 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | Yes |
More land was purchased at a later date. |
Jackson | Thompson, Margaret Chavner | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| CFR0289 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Claggett, Charles | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Marion | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| CFR0691 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Henderer, Charles G. | 1859 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Douglas | Clemo, Arlyn L. | No | no | Oats, wheat, cheat, horses,... | Pigs, cattle, barley, hay,... | No |
141.2 acres in present farm. Farm was divided 5 times. |
Friday, November 30, 1973 | 1974 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | Germany | 3 | |||||||||||
| CFR0820 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Butler, Euphemia | Big Oak Butler (Clinton) Farm | 1878 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Multnomah | Clinton, Ralph N.; Clinton, Bessie M. | No | None of the original... | Fruit trees. | Pasture, Beef cattle, Horses... | No |
The application has extensive notes in each of the above categories. For the sake of space, I have not included those notes here. Please see original application. The property was divided once into 5 sections. |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Handwritten letter; Typewritten letter; Land patent; Deed; Newspaper article; Extensive notes on the history of the property; Genealogical information. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | maternal great grandmother | "somewhere back East" | 1 | ||||||||||
| CFR0948 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Dundas, Jr., James | 1879 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from C.L. and Alice Easterbrook |
Yamhill | Dundas, Roy W., Jr. | No | One barn, one grainery, house... | Red Chaff wheat, dairy cattle... | Row crops (green bush beans,... | No |
NOTE 1: Application says "won siler medal and award for red chaff whear in sheaf at 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition." Land has been divided -- "one parcel to Pope and talbot for roadway and log boom, one parcel to Roy and Patricia Dundas." |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Typewrittten letters; 1985 award application notice; Naturalization papers for James Dundee Jr. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | grandson | Iowa | 2 |
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