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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CFR0139 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Ross, Col. John England; Ross, Elizabeth | 1854 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim No. 69 | No | No | Jackson |
18 acres located in Jackson County; 2 miles westerly of Medford; on south side of Ross Lace at Griffin Creek |
Ross, Frank E.; Ross, Jocelyn P. | No | Alfalfa | No |
"heavy black soil of the best Rogue River Valley quality. Owner plans home which will make on or two homes on each of 17 subdivisions/ now constituting the original DLC of 320 acres." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1959 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | ||||||||||||
CFR0606 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Amacher, Fred and Ernest F. Ricco, Sr. | Ricco Ranches | 1897 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
See land deeds. |
Grant |
Approx. 4 miles NE of Prairie City, Oregon. |
Voigt, Pat; Voigt, Hedy | No | Old blacksmith shop. | Cattle, sheep, hogs, barley,... | Cattle, sheep, hogs, barley. | No |
"In 1897 Fred Amancher acquired a homestead a few miles N of Prarie City. He convinced his sister and brother-in-law, Ernest R ico, in 1898, to come and partner up with him on the ranch. After two years or so Fred had had enough and left the country." (1) |
Sunday, November 30, 1997 | 1998 |
Application; Deeds; Real property descriptions; Typewritten letter. |
No | No | MISSING APPLICATION | granddaughter & grandson-in-law | Portland, Oregon | Austrian | 3 | |||||||
CFR0057 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Kruse, John | Walberta Farm | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from a homesteader |
Section 183, S1E |
Clackamas | Kruse, Elmer W.; Kruse, Calvin W. | No | No |
"John Kruse, a steamboatman, bought the 208-acre farm in 1852. It is now owned by three generations of his descendants: his son Homer A. Kruse's widow, Rosa A. Kruse; his grandson Elmer W. Krue & wife Anna; and his gr.gdson Roger Kruse." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Typewritten letter; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 4 | |||||||||||||
CFR0137 | 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, Katheryn E. | No | No |
"My father took this this land under the will of Michael Hanley, his father, and the property was given to me by my brother Edward B. Hanley Jr. In the fall of 1957 I deeded 28 acres of this land to my son Robert D. Heffernan Jr." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Warranty deed; County records regarding boundary line. |
No | Yes | Mss1604 | granddaughter | 2 | |||||||||||
CFR0133 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Dunn, Patrick | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim No. 56 | No | No |
T 39 R 1 E Section 13 and 24 |
Jackson |
4.5 miles SE of Ashland, Oregon. Located at 4224 Hgy. 66 Ashland Ave. |
Dunn, George Edwin | No | At time of application: Grain... | No |
"My grandfather patrick Dunn took donation land claim. I think No. 56 in 1852. My father purchased land from him and still owns it. He retired from farm in 1920 and I have leased it and operated since then." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 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 | |||||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||
CFR0309 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Johns, John A. and Julia A. | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
Sec 33 T 7 R 3 W |
Marion |
2 miles S. of Salem on South River Road. |
Johns, Jesse J. | No | Apples, Pasture | Farm, Pasture, Fruit, Apples... | No |
"Nathaniel Caldwell first took up sec. 33 640 acres. He was a single man so had to forfiet 1/2 section. A squater jumpt the 1/2 claim my grandparents gave him a yolk of oxen for his right and received a patent from US government." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement; 1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||
CFR0063 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Marquam, Alfred | 1846 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
50 acres Section 10 T 6 R1E |
Clackamas | Marquam, Ross (Mr. and Mrs.); Marquam, Omar (Mr. and Mrs.) | No | No |
"On Application letter: Clerk Records, Book M/365 Patent-Dated 1878, Dept. of Interior has witness affidavits back to 1846 therefore it is continuous ownership." |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Handwritten letter |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0982 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Ranch | Messal Sr., William | 1880 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from Rosie Messal |
T 36 R2E Section 8 |
Jackson | Peile, Maxine | No | Original barn is still... | Hay, Cattle, Garden pigs | Cattle, Sheep, Pasture | No |
"Over the generations the ranch has been added to. It began as 160 acres, and is now 880 acres. There are 3 generations here now -- yet only Maxine lives on the original 160." |
Tuesday, November 30, 1999 | 2000 |
Application; Statement of affirmation; Handwritten letters; Newspaper article; Excerpt from "A History of Eagle Point"; Typewritten letter; Birth certificate; Marriage certificate; Chain of title; Deeds. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | great niece by marriage | Germany ["Schwaben - Colonic - Prenfsen"] ["Bayern Province"] | Germany | 1 |