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 |
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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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CFR0378 | 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 | Original homestead, once... | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | ||||||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0380 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Ford, Nathaniel & Lucinda D. Ford | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Certificate # 85 | No | No | Polk |
Rickreall Creek |
No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0386 | 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 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0392 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Blair, Thomas R. & Emmaline Buell Blair | 1848 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Polk |
on Mill Creek |
No | No |
Chain of ownership: Thomas & Emmaline Blair to Cyrus Blair to Madie Hayes and three sisters and two brothers. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0395 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Read, Hankerson & Jane Read | 1853 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Notification # 4971, Claim # 63 | No | No | Polk & Yamhill |
North Line of Polk County and South Line of Yamhill County |
No | Original homestead site. | No |
320 acres in original farm. 60 acres of original farm in present farm. Chain of ownership: Hankerson & Jane Read to Malinda Ann (daughter) & James Syron to Minnie Pearl Syron (granddaughter) & Alfred Hill to Glenn Hill (greatgrandson). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0396 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hill, Henry Washington & Martha Ann Hill | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
See application for full description. T 8 S R 4 W. |
Polk |
Henry Hill's Town of Independence. |
Hill, Orville H. | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0404 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Ridgeway, John | 1846 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim # 43 | No | No |
Sec 20, 21, 28, 29 T 6 S R 6 W |
Polk |
Mill Creek |
No | No |
Chain of ownership: John Ridgeway to William Ridgeway (son) and Mary E. Ridgeway (daughter); to Mary C. Stewart (daughter of William). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | Missouri | 0 | ||||||||||||
CFR0406 | 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 |
Chain of ownership: Thomas & Emmaline Blair to Cyrus Blair (son) to Velna Walker and three sisters and two brothers. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandddaughter | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0407 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Billings, George & Emma | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
See application for additional info. |
Polk | No | No |
Chain of Ownership: George & Emma Billings; to Eudora Billings Bentley (daughter) to 1945; Ethel Bentley Winter (grandaughter) to date. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 |