| 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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| CFR0020 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Belknap, Ransom A. | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #61 | No | No |
T 14 S R 5 W |
Benton | Kyle, O. B. | No | No |
At the time of the application, the applicant was farming part of the original land of a total of 360 acres. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||
| CFR0384 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Savage, William | 1845 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Notification # 5060, Claim # 70 | No | No |
Sec 12 T 6 S R 7 W, containing 320.80 acres |
Polk |
S bank of the Willamina River |
No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; 1959 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | Daughter | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| CFR0301 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Reeves, Bartley | 1854 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from the George Helm DLC. |
Marion |
3 miles NW of Jefferson |
Hampton, Doris R. | No | Clover (60 acres), Barley (6... | No |
Current property consists of 115 acres. 25 acres of the property is left fallow each summer. Bartley Reeves gave property to daughter Sarah Reeves Roland, who then passed it to her son Guy Roland. Applicant is the daughter of Guy Roland. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great granddaughter | 0 | ||||||||||||
| CFR0993 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Manning, Francis | 1857 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from Charles Achard |
Marion |
2 miles N. of Brooks on Highway 99E. |
No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Court certification; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson and granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| CFR0209 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Ingram, William H. | 1855 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
Sec 8 & 17 T 13 S R 1 W |
Linn | Gunderson, Grace | No | No |
80 acres of original land in present farm. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; 1959 state fair registration form; Handwritten note. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| CFR0488 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Everest, Richard | 1846 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Yamhill |
E of Newberg |
Jones, Elva O. | No | At time of application:... | No |
10 acres in present farm. Chain of ownership: Richard Everest to Ruben Everest (son) to Laura Everest Green (granddaughter) to Emery A. Jones (her nephew) to Elva O. Jones his wife. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit; 1959 state fair celebration registration form; Typewritten letter. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| CFR0489 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Lamson, Jeramiah | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
T 2 S R 7 W |
Yamhill |
1 mile W of Willamina |
Lamson, Edward D.; Lamson, Florence A. | No | Barn framed of hand hewn... | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||
| CFR0402 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Smith, Absalom and Hylah Smith | 1848 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
Sec 11, 12, 13, 14 T 7 S R 5 W |
Polk |
7 1/2 miles NE of Dallas in the Smithfield community |
Smith, Hardin | No | Grain, cattle. | Grain; Cattle. | No |
Founder of Smithfield. 641.75 acres of original farm still in the family. Chain of ownership: Absalom & Hylah Smith; to Samuel Thurston Smith (son); to Hardin Smith (grandson). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||
| CFR0318 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Skaife, John and Mariette | 1854 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Marion |
7 miles W of Gervais on Fairfield road |
Marthaler, Freeman | No | General farming, Cattle,... | No |
Applicant's mother Margaret Ann Skaife Marthaler was born in the log cabin on the property. Original owners came from Missouri by oxen wagon in 1854 and lived near Woodburn a short time before settling on the farm. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||
| CFR0231 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Knighten, Commodore P.; Knighten, Rosanna | 1853 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | number 71 and number 60 | No | No |
section 13 T 12 R 4 W and section 18 T 12 R 3 W - 640 acres originally |
Linn |
one mile south of Tangent, lying E and W of Pacific Highway |
Scott, W. C. | No | No |
When P. Knighton died 128 acres were heired and purchased by their daughter Sarah Knighton (d.1953) and her husband C. Scott (d. 1912). On their deaths, the property was purchased by their son, the applicant. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Typewritten letter. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 |
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