| 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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| CFR0821 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Graf, Andreas | 1881 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | #2675 | No | Multnomah | Graff, Clifton L.; Graff, Juanita A. | No | House built c. 1885 (placed... | Cattle, Horses, Fowl, Hay | Cattle, Hay, Horses, Nursery... | Yes |
The property has been divided once. |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Line of ownership; Typewritten letter; Tax receipt; Homestead documentation; Newspaper article. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | grandson | Germany | Germany | 2 | |||||||||
| CFR0027 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Rickard, John | 1854 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Benton |
12 miles S. of Corvallis on the old Territorial Road. 25450 Starr Creek Road, Corvallis. |
Scruggs, Thella Rickard | No | Peter Rickard Farmstead built... | Yes |
At the death of John Rickard, a portion of the property passed to "my father, Peter Rickard
I inherited 107 acres of the original DLC." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||
| CFR0011 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Elliott, William H. | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #40 | No | No |
T 11 S R 4 W |
Benton | Elliott, Darrell | No | Yes |
"My husband's great grandfather William H. Elliott traded a yoke of oxen for the Homestead rights to the original Donation Land Claim." Applicant still has 90 acres of the original DLC. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Typewritten letters. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson and his wife | 0 | |||||||||||||
| CFR0759 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Chambers, Matthew C. | 1866 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Linn | Chambers, Bert W. | No | UPDATE: barn built c. 1860 (... | Horses, cattle, hogs,... | Cattle, sheep, hay, pasture | Yes |
639.95 acres in original farm. 94.81 acres in present farm. |
Sunday, November 30, 1975 | 1976 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Bridgeport, Vermont | 1 | |||||||||||
| CFR0015 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hayden, Thomas C. | 1855 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #38 | No | No |
T 14 S R 8 W |
Benton | Hayden, Rufus | No | Yes |
At the time of application, the applicant still owned and farmed a good portion of the original DLC. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Notarized ownership document |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||
| CFR0632 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Maxwell, L. O. | 1880 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Baker | No | Yes | Friday, November 30, 1979 | 1980 | No | No | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| CFR0698 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Weaver, Adam | 1873 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Douglas |
3 miles E of Canyonville |
Weaver, Ralph F. | No | House (?). Chicken house.... | Cattle, hogs, hay, grain. | Sheep, chickens, hay, fruit. | Yes |
440 acres in original farm. 15 acres in present farm. Farm was never divided. |
Sunday, November 30, 1975 | 1976 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | son | Ohio | 1 | ||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||
| CFR0299 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Geer, R. C. and Mary C. | 1848 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Sections 21, 22, 27 and 28 of T 7S R1W | No | No | Marion |
12 miles east of Salem, Oregon and the court house |
Geer, A. A. | No | UPDATE: farmhouse built in... | Yes |
R. C. and Mary C. Geer gave property to son L.B. Geer, who passed it to their son A. A. Geer (applicant). Original DLC held 640 acres. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement; 1959 and 1960 state fair celebration registration forms; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | ||||||||||||
| SFR0020 | Download Application (PDF) | Sesquicentennial Farm | Chambers, Mathew | Chambers Farm | 1847 | 640.00 | 98.00 | 95 | Yes | No | No |
T 10S, R 3W, S 35 |
Linn |
36914 Scravel Rd. NE Albany, OR 97322 |
3 miles | Albany | Chrisman, Kenneth R. | Yes | Fully restored barn used 1860... | Cheatgrass; Hops; Oats;... | Hay; Ryegrass; Cattle | Yes | Barn (c. 1860, c 1890) NRIS 96001044 | Tuesday, May 18, 2010 | 2010 |
Application; Statement of affirmation; Letters with family history; Emails from Oregon Century Farm and Ranch Program; Original century farm application; Farm history; Copies of photographs; Excerpt from "Portrait and Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley, Oregon"; Letters from State Historic Preservation Office; National Register of Historic Places registration form; Maps of property; Oregon Century Farm award certificate; Excerpt from "Linn County, Oregon Pioneer Settlers" |
Yes | Yes | MSS ORCFRP | Great grandson | Bridgeport, Vermont | 1 |
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