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 |
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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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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 | ||||||||||||||||
CFR0178 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Woolridge, John | 1854 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Sections 11 and 14, Township 16S, Range 5 W. | No | No | Lane |
Sec. 14 T16 R 5 |
Jacobsen, Tobias | No | no | orchard | rye grass, wheat, oats,... | No | Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application |
Yes | Yes | Mss1604 | great granddaughter | Trigg Co., Kentucky | 1 | ||||||||||
CFR0181 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Nighswander, Francis Marion | 1862 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
T S 19 R 5 Sec 9 |
Lane | Nighswander, Jasper Merle | No | no | horses, hay, cattle, sheep | cattle, hay, tree farm | No |
160 acres in original farm. Approx. 145 acres in present farm. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | son | Ohio to California | 1 | ||||||||||
CFR0263 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Rodgers, Milton & Elizabeth | 1851 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Linn | Renter | No | no | wheat, oats, cattle, sheep | perennial ryegrass, common... | No |
643.35 acres in original farm. 229 acres in present farm. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great granddaughter | Missouri | 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 | |||||||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||||
CFR0358 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Keil, Fredrick | 1856 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | 160 acres homesteaded by Oscar Cone. Bought by Hugo Keil in 1856. | No | Marion | Keil, Hugo P. | No | None in use. House was built... | wheat, oats, apples, stock | grass, beef stock | No |
160 acres in original farm. 42 acres in present farm. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Missouri | 2 | ||||||||||
CFR0360 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Edmunson, Rufus C. | 1863 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Marion |
1788 93rd SE, Salem, OR |
Miller, Wilbur W. (Mrs.) | No | no | horses | cherries. 4 acres of... | No |
640 acres in original farm. 52 acres in present farm. Original farm divided 4 times. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | great granddaughter in-law | East Coast | 2 | ||||||||||
CFR0402 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Smith, Absalom and Hylah Smith | 1848 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
Sec 11, 12, 13, 14 T 7 S R 5 W |
Polk |
7 1/2 miles NE of Dallas in the Smithfield community |
Smith, Hardin | No | Grain, cattle. | Grain; Cattle. | No |
Founder of Smithfield. 641.75 acres of original farm still in the family. Chain of ownership: Absalom & Hylah Smith; to Samuel Thurston Smith (son); to Hardin Smith (grandson). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||
CFR0475 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Everest, Richard | 1846 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Yamhill | Everest, Arthur F.; Everest, Gladys L. | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application |
No | No | 0 |