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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CFR0413 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Vandevort, William | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | E 1/2 of Sec 7 in T 7 S R 3 W | No | No | Polk | Vaughn, Ruth E. | No | no | grain, hay, dairy, poultry | beef cattle, permanent pasture | No |
DLC deeded to Adam S. Hamilton in 1850. 320 acres in original farm. 23 acres in present farm. Original farm divided 4 times. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Genealogy (for Addie Vandevort); Family birth record; Donation Land Claim deed (for Adam Hamilton). |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | great granddaughter | 1 | |||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||||
CFR0167 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | McFarland, John Ward | 1853 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim # 59 | No | No |
Parts of Sections 19, 20, 29 and 30 of T 20 S R 3 W, W.M. |
Lane | Scott, Ethel Chrisman | No | Survey notes show the John W... | No |
280 acres of DLC in present farm. Chain of ownership: John Ward McFarland 1853 to 1880; Sophronia McFarland to 1932; Anna L. Chrisman to 1944; Ethel Chrisman Scott to date. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Letter of approval; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great granddaughter | 0 | ||||||||||||
CFR0281 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Anderson, James Mechlin | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim # 50, Notification #631, Ded #777 | No | No |
T 9 S, R 3 W |
Marion |
5 miles W of Jefferson on Anberny Hill Road |
Anderson, James W.; Anderson, Ruth M. | No | House built in 1855 still... | Crop land (35 acres), Pasture... | No |
Current applicant ownes 91 acres. Part of the land is rented out. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized ownership document.
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No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson (James) | Fairfield County, Ohio | 0 | |||||||||
CFR0464 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Cummins, Erwin | 1861 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Washington | Fischbuch, Chester (Mr. and Mrs.) | No | No. | hay, grain, cattle, onions | onions, hay, grain, cattle | No |
320 acres in original farm. 100 acres in present farm. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Newspaper article. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | Illinois | 2 | |||||||||||
CFR0379 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Blair, Thomas R. & Emmaline Buell Blair | 1848 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
Sec 16 & 17, 20 & 21 T 6 S R 6 W |
Polk |
on Mill Creek |
No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0298 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Doty, Nelson R. | 1853 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Marion |
5 miles NW of Jefferson |
Renter | No | No |
Current applicant owns 140 acres of the original homestead. Nelson Doty gave portion of original property to his son W. E. Doty (applicant) who expanded his holdings by purchasing more of the property from the other heirs. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | son | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0206 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Farwell, Richard & Esther | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
Sec. 5, 6, 7, 8 T 13 S R 3 W, W.M. |
Linn | Farwell, Mabel R. | No | No |
Property was divided equally between Richard Farwell's sons, E. D. Farwell and Hiram J. Farwell. Mrs. E. D. Farwell (Mabel Farwell) inherited from her husband. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Typewritten letter; Handwritten note. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | daughter-in-law | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0485 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Harrison, Thaddus R. & Marie A | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
Sec 30, 25, 26 T 5 S R 4 W, containing 320 acres. |
Yamhill |
1 mile from Amity |
No | No |
87.77 acres in present farm. Portion of present farm originally donated as site for Bethel School. Once school is gone the land will revert back to the heirs. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit; Handwritten note. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great granddaughter ? | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0035 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Harris, John | 1853 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #43 | No | No | Benton | Whitby, Harold R.; Whitby, Jack | No | No |
Property was passed upon death of John Harris to daughter Mary Harris Whitby, then to the applicant, and then to his son and daughter (Jack Harold Whitby and Isabel Whitby Smith). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; 1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 3 |