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 |
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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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CFR0040 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Horning, Frederick August | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | No | Benton |
36 Street & Philomath Blvd. (adjoining Corvallis) |
Groves, William Frank | No | House built c.1859. Benton... | Grain (wheat, oats, barley,... | Prunes, apples, walnuts, hay. | No |
320 acres in original farm. 70 acres in present farm. |
Thursday, November 30, 1972 | 1973 |
Obituary for Frederick August Horning. Section of newspaper article on Frank Groves. Letter of Guardianship appointing Fred P. Osborn as guardian for W. F. Groves. Application; Certification of ownership. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Prussia to Illinois to Kansas City, Missouri | 1 | ||||||||||
CFR0173 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Sears, Carrell Jackson | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Lane | Brumfield, Edna | No | At time of application: Sheep. | No | Monday, November 30, 1959 | 1960 |
Application; Letter of approval;1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
CFR0319 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Minto, John and Martha Ann | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Marion |
23 acres lying on Sunnyside Road, South of Salem 5 miles. |
McNerney, Ernestine M. | No | Pasture, Dairy cows (... | No |
Land was passed to applicant's mother Mary Minto Halley and then to the applicant. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0453 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Roberts, Henry Clay | 1853 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Washington | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 | No | No | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
CFR0720 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Blackwell, Clement Cood and Jane Blackwell | 1876 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Grant |
2 1/2 miles East of Long Creek. |
No | House built c. 1880. | Hogs, sheep, horses, sugar... | Grain hay, alfalfa and... | No |
160 acres in original farm. 1600 acres in present farm. |
Sunday, November 30, 1975 | 1976 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Tennessee and Arkansas | 1 | |||||||||||
CFR0849 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hemphill, James Monroe | James Monroe Hemphill Farm | 1865 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Umatilla | No | No | Friday, November 30, 1979 | 1980 | No | No | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
CFR0979 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Zimmerman, George E. | 1884 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | Oregon City Homestead Cert # 3420 Application # 5852 | No |
T2N R2W Section 8 |
Washington | Tannock, Richard B. | No | None of the original... | Hay, Strawberries, Timber | Timber | No | Tuesday, November 30, 1999 | 2000 |
Application; Statement of affirmation; Family history; Obituary; Homestead certificate; Birth certificate; 1880 Census document; Deeds; Homestead papers. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | great grandson | Germany | Germany | 1 | |||||||||
CFR0007 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Buckingham, Heman C. | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #53 | No | No |
T 14 S R 6 W |
Benton | Buckingham, Howard | No | No |
Applicant and his sister still own and farm part of the original land claim. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Notarized ownership document |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0140 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Brown, Henry R. | 1854 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Section 10, Township 36 South Range 1 East. Tax Lot 3400 | No | No | Jackson |
1.5 miles above the present Brownboro Store. Runs along Butte Creek for 1/2 miles on the left hand side. |
Bradshaw, Merton | No | no | hay, horses | hay, beef cattle | No |
At the time of the application (1958) the property was being leased to Merton Bradshaw. Merton Bradshaw applied for Century Farm Certification in 1965. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter (Isolee) | 0 | ||||||||||
CFR0287 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Caplinger, Jacob | 1845 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Marion |
4 miles E of Salem on East State St. |
Caplinger, Irvine | No | Barley, Timber, Pasture | No |
Current applicant owns 120 acres of original property. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized ownership document. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 |