| 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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| CFR0395 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Read, Hankerson & Jane Read | 1853 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Notification # 4971, Claim # 63 | No | No | Polk & Yamhill |
North Line of Polk County and South Line of Yamhill County |
No | Original homestead site. | No |
320 acres in original farm. 60 acres of original farm in present farm. Chain of ownership: Hankerson & Jane Read to Malinda Ann (daughter) & James Syron to Minnie Pearl Syron (granddaughter) & Alfred Hill to Glenn Hill (greatgrandson). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||
| CFR0692 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Arrington, James M. & Kitty Ann C. | 1851 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Douglas | Ollivant, Don (Thomas D.) | No | no | Tobacco | Sheep, hay. | No |
320 acres in original farm. 570 acres in present farm. Farm divided many times. Last tribe of local Indians massacred in yard of farm. |
Friday, November 30, 1973 | 1974 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | Missouri | 2 | |||||||||||
| CFR0745 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Gray, Frederick L. | 1861 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Lane | Gray, Hubert | No | House and barn built c.1861. | Hogs, cattle, oats, wheat. | Cattle, sheep, hay. | No |
320 acres in original farm. 42 acres in present farm. Farm divided twice. |
Sunday, November 30, 1975 | 1976 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Newspaper article. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Pennsylvania | 1 | |||||||||||
| CFR0779 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Egan, William H. | Mount View Farm | 1875 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
See attachments for description. |
Marion |
8 miles N of Salem. |
Egan, Helen D. | No | House built in 1922. White... | Grains, fruit, cows, pigs,... | Grain, hay, crimson clover. | No |
320 acres in original farm. 40 acres in present farm. Farm divided twice. |
Sunday, November 30, 1975 | 1976 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Title abstract, Chain of Title, Deed; Biographical excerpt of William H. Egan from "The Centennial History of Oregon." |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | daughter-in-law | Wisconsin | Irish | 3 | |||||||
| CFR0907 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Papenberg, George | Elligsen Farm | 1866 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Washington |
Frobase Road, Tualatin |
Elligsen, Edward A.; Elligsen, Meta H. | No | no | Hogs, cows, horses, sheep,... | Grain, hay, crimson clover. | No |
320 acres in original farm. 40 acres in present farm. Farm divided twice. |
Sunday, November 30, 1975 | 1976 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grand nephew | Hanover, Germany | 0 | |||||||||
| CFR0695 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Martindale, Alston | Martindale Century Farm | 1853 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Douglas | Bright, Harold | No | no | Cattle, horses, hogs, poultry... | Different hay crops, gardens... | No |
320 acres in original farm. 40 acres in present farm. Farm divided 6 times. Donated 1 acre for cemetary. Built fort agains Indian attacks. Ran stage station from home. Alston was postmaster for the Valley from 1879-1898. |
Sunday, November 30, 1975 | 1976 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | Switerland County, Indiana | 2 | ||||||||||
| CFR0080 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Morris, David C. | 1864 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | No | Clackamas |
7 miles South East of Canby |
Morris, James H.; Morris, Mary W. | No | no | cattle, sheep, wheat, oats,... | grass for pasture and hay | No |
320 acres in original farm. 39.27 acres in present farm. David Morris bought 320 acres from Louis & Johanna Behrens on May 16, 1864. The Behrens homesteaded in 1857. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Pennsylvania | 0 | ||||||||||
| CFR0268 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Coon, Washington L. | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Linn | Coon, H. C. | No | no | Grain | Seed, grain. | No |
320 acres in original farm. 320 acres in present farm. |
Sunday, November 30, 1969 | 1970 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Kentucky | 2 | |||||||||||
| CFR0277 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Tandy, Edwin Napper | 1871 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
E 1/2 of NW 1/4 of Sec 27 T 14 S R 4 W (80 acres) and W 1/2 of NE 1/4 of Sec 27 T 14 S R 4 W ( 80a.) and W 1/2 of SE 1/4 and E 1/2 of SW 1/4 of Sec 27 T 14 S R 4 W (160 a.) |
Linn |
Farm located at Route 2, Harrisburg |
Kropf, Velda | No | no | At time of application:... | No |
320 acres in original farm. 32 acres in present farm. |
Thursday, November 30, 1972 | 1973 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Deed; Typewritten letter. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | great granddaughter | Lane County | 0 | ||||||||||
| CFR0260 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Carns, William | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Linn |
8 miles East of Harrisburg |
Renter | No | Yes. Barn and part of house... | Grain; Hay; Oats; Wheat feed... | At time of application:... | No |
320 acres in original farm. 306 acres in present farm. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | Illinois | 1 |
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