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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CFR0722 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Stone, Wells Wilcott and Eva Livonia Stone | 1882 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Grant | McKern, Jay E. | No | Orchard; Cattle; Horses;... | At time of application: Hay;... | No | Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
No | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | 0 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0852 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Scott, William H. H. | 1872 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | No |
E. 1/2 sec 15, Twp 4N, R 34E WM |
Umatilla |
Rt. 1 Box 65 Athena, OR |
Scott, Joseph Jay | No | None of the original... | Wheat | Wheat, Peas | No |
The property has never been divided. There were 320 acres in the original farm, and there are 320 acres in the farm today. |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Newspaper articles. |
No | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | grandson | Illinois and Missouri | 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 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
CFR0948 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Dundas, Jr., James | 1879 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from C.L. and Alice Easterbrook |
Yamhill | Dundas, Roy W., Jr. | No | One barn, one grainery, house... | Red Chaff wheat, dairy cattle... | Row crops (green bush beans,... | No |
NOTE 1: Application says "won siler medal and award for red chaff whear in sheaf at 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition." Land has been divided -- "one parcel to Pope and talbot for roadway and log boom, one parcel to Roy and Patricia Dundas." |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Typewrittten letters; 1985 award application notice; Naturalization papers for James Dundee Jr. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | grandson | Iowa | 2 | ||||||||||
CFR0658 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Weddeler, Christoph and Johanne | Ledbury Acres | 1881 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Clackamas | Ledbury, Roy A. | No | Hay; Oats; Potatoes; Wheat;... | At time of application: Wheat... | No | Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Deed. |
No | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0787 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Doerfler, Martin | 1877 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Marion |
13510 Doerfler Rd SE, Silverton, OR |
Doerfler, David A.; Doerfler, Rita | No | Barn, Grainery, House | Cereal Grains, Cattle | Wheat, Oats, Grass seed,... | No |
The property has been divided three times. |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | great-grandson | Austria | Austrian | 4 | |||||||||
CFR0884 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hutchinson, James | 1865 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Union | Hutchinson, Lowell | No | Nonoe of the original... | cattle, horses | cattle, hay, wheat | No |
The original farm has been divided several times. |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | grandson | Illinois | 3 | |||||||||||
CFR0983 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Ranch | Read, Lilly | 1898 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from Daniel Aaron and Manda Aaron |
N 1/2 of NE 1/4 of Section 34 and W 1/2 of NW 1/4 of Section 35, TS12S, R13E |
Jefferson | Read, J. Herschel; Read, Kenny | No | Residence and barn still... | Dryland wheat, Cattle (... | Cattle (commercial and... | No |
Ranch is being run today by Herschel Read and Kenny Read. |
Tuesday, November 30, 1999 | 2000 |
Application; Statement of affirmation; Typewritten letter; Ranch history; Deed. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | nephew | Grizzly Mountain Area, Crook County, Oregon | 3 | |||||||||
CFR0821 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Graf, Andreas | 1881 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | #2675 | No | Multnomah | Graff, Clifton L.; Graff, Juanita A. | No | House built c. 1885 (placed... | Cattle, Horses, Fowl, Hay | Cattle, Hay, Horses, Nursery... | Yes |
The property has been divided once. |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Line of ownership; Typewritten letter; Tax receipt; Homestead documentation; Newspaper article. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | grandson | Germany | Germany | 2 |