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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CFR0926 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Shearer, James N. | 1883 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchase from J. F. Shorb |
Washington | Shearer, Robert P. | No | None of the original... | Prunes, Cattle, Hay, Grain | Christmas Trees | No |
Property has been divided four times. |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Handwritten letter; Typewritten letter; Deed; Shearer family history; Photocopies of photographs; Deed. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | great grandson | Kansas | 3 | ||||||||||
CFR0807 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Lindsay, John and Catherine Anne (Winters) Kincaid | 1884 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Morrow | Kincaid, Lindsay J.; Kincaid, Diana M. | No | Two barns used for storage | Wheat, Cattle, Mules, Horses... | Dryland wheat, Barley, Cattle... | No |
Property has been divided once. The first crop grown on the land was 25 acres of wheat. |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Note; Article. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | great grandson | Antioch, Ohio by way of Hays, Kansas | 2 | |||||||||||
CFR1016 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Fritz Koopman | 1884 | No | No | No | Baker | Halfway | Gulick, Stanley; Gulick, Grace | No | Garden; General farming;... | Cattle. | No |
Property is listed on application as being on Moody Lane. This street has since been renamed Koopman Lane. |
Saturday, May 1, 1993 | 1994 |
Application; Statement form; Homestead history; Certificate of Water Right. |
Yes | Yes | Stanley Gulick is great grandson of Fritz Koopman. Grace Gulick is widow of Charles Gulick, another great grandson. | |||||||||||||||||
CFR0370 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Powell, Jackson | 1855 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #53 | No | No |
sections 2 and 3, T 1 S, R 3 E -- 320 acres |
Multnomah |
downtown Gresham |
Powell, Fred | No | No |
Property passed from Jackson Powell to son Charles N. Powell to Carrie Powell (widow of Charles) to their son Fred. J. Powell |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Typewritten letters (includeing list of the transfer of property through family). |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | ||||||||||||
CFR0242 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Cheadle, Richmond | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from Sam Hyde |
S 1/2 of the NE 1/4 and the S 1/2 of the NW 1/4 and the S 1/2 of the SW 1/4 and the N 1/2 of SW 1/4 and N 1/2 of SE 1/4 of section 19 T 12S R 2W -- 320 acres |
Linn | Wheeler, Dean; Wheeler, Charles; Wheeler, Scott; Wheeler, Robert; Wheeler, Alfred | No | No |
Property passed to Mariette Wheeler, who then passed 320 acres to Dean Wheeler (father of applicants) and to George Wheeler (uncle of applicants). The property is now owned by all five brothers (applicants). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandsons | 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 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0788 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Goodknecht, Peter | 1881 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from Thomas Miller |
Marion |
1078 Cascade Hwy NE, Silverton, OR |
Riches, Robert L. | No | Barn | Hops, Wheat, Oats, Cattle,... | Grass seed, Wheat, Sugar... | No |
Property was divided once. |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Farm history; Deeds. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | great grandson | Switzerland, Kansas | Switzerland | 3 | ||||||||
CFR0233 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Shelton, Haman | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
T 10 S R 1 E containing about 160 acres. |
Linn |
E. of Scio |
Shelton, Vardie E. | No | No |
Property was passed to Haman Shelton II, and then to applicant. The applicant has sold 5 acres of the original land, now owning 155 acres. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 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 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0372 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Stanley, Jeremiah | 1853 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
lot 96, section 4, T 1 S, R 3 E |
Multnomah | No | No |
Propery passed to son William Stanley, then to son J. Earl Stanley |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Typewritten letters (including list of the transfer of property). |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 |