| 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 | |||||||||||||||
| CFR0236 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Sprenger, Nicholas | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
section 31 T 12 S R 3 W -- 320 acres. |
Linn |
2 miles N of Shedd and east of highway 99 |
No | No |
Nicholas Sprenger died 8 Nov 1871, and passed 212 acres to this son Henry Sprenger. Henry (father of applicant) died 1938, and the applicant was heired 176 acres. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavits; Typewritten letter. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| CFR0141 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Chavner, Thomas | 1856 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Sec 10 T 36 S R 1 E. | No | Yes |
Purchased more land later and added it to original property. |
T 36 R 3 W Sections 14-15, 22-23 about 700 acres total |
Jackson | Thompson, Chavner | No | Hay, Grain, Cattle, Pasture | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Newspaper article. Memo re: ownership. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| CFR0338 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Savage, John M. and Jane | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #43, claim no. 259 | No | No |
250 acres |
Marion |
Victor Point |
Savage, Vera E. | No | At time of application: Grass... | No |
Applicant is the wife of A. J. Savage, the grandson of John and Jane Savage. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | wife of grandson | 0 | |||||||||||
| CFR0159 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Huston, Henry C. | 1853 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim # 60 | No | No |
Sec 32 T 17 S R 5 W, W.M., containing 160 acres. |
Lane | Huston, Grover | No | No |
7.67 acres of original DLC in present farm. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Huston, Grover |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | unknown | 0 | |||||||||||||
| SFR0040 | Download Application (PDF) | Sesquicentennial Farm | Benjamin Robinson Elizabeth J. Chrisman | Robinson Stilwell Taggart | 1844 | 160.00 | 96.00 | 96 | Yes | #1019, Claim 52 | No | No |
T4S R3W S |
Yamhill |
3 miles south of Dayton on Palmer Creek & Webfoot Junction |
3 miles | Dayton OR | Country Heritage Farms Sweeney Family | No | First house in 1850; not in... | Vegetables, corn, beets,... | Range of vegetables and grains | No | Monday, March 5, 2018 | 2018 |
application packet bound; supporting documents DLC certificate papers |
Yes | Yes | OSU | Great great grandson | Oregon | US | 0 | |||||
| CFR0009 | 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 | Earnest, Pearl Hayden | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Notarized ownership document |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||
| CFR0197 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Brock, Vineyard C. | 1854 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
T 13 S R 3 W |
Linn | No | No |
Applicant owns 40 acres of original DLC. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Typewritten letter. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 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 |
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