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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CFR0112 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Rice, Harrison | 1856 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Douglas | Rice, Harrison F. | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
CFR0478 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Goodrich, William | 1848 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
Sec 25, 36 T 4 S R 4 W |
Yamhill |
3 1/2 miles SW of Dayton |
Goodrich, Leonard | No | No |
120 acres of original farm in present farm. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit; Handwritten letter; Typewritten letter; Newspaper articles. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson, grandsons | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0031 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Noble, Henry and Mercy | 1848 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No. 52 | No | No | Benton | No | No |
Land was sold by the Nobles to Noah A. Starr who gave it to his son Wilbur F. Starr, the father of the applicant. The land was then divided between the applicant and his sister, Claire W. Smith. There's 2 parcels of land. See application for description. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; 1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | 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 | ||||||||||||||
CFR1086 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Bruck, Peter Joseph | 1905 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
T 3S, R 1E, S 17,20 |
Clackamas | No | Pasture; Timber; Livestock. | At time of application:... | No | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 | 2005 |
Application; Statement of affirmation; Family history; Deed; Photographs. |
No | No | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
CFR0312 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Short, John W. | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from William Price for $1000. |
T 7 S, R 1 |
Marion |
10 miles E. of Salem |
Jones, Thomas; Meyer, Alice | No | None of the original... | Pasture, Timber, Brush | No |
Original proptery was 160 acres. Applicant owns 109 acres of which 59 acres is in cultivation. J. W. Short gave son-in-law T. A. Jones land in 1901. Son W. A. Jones received land in 1916, and in 1955 applicant Thomas Jones received land from estate. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | Great Grandchildren in law | 0 | ||||||||||
CFR0222 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Morgan, Miller & Elizabeth | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
S 1/2 of the NW 1/4 and the SW 1/4 of Sec 3; the S 1/2 of the SE 1/4 and the SE 1/4 of Sec 4. The N 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of Sec 9 and the N 1/2 of the NW 1/2 of Sec 10, T 13 S R 3 W, containing 640 acres. |
Linn | Morgan, E. F.; Morgan, Lottie | No | No |
E. F. and Lottie Morgan inherited 308.66 acres in Sec 4 & 3 in T 13 S R 3 W on Feb. 10, 1935. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavits; Handwritten letter. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson & granddaughter | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0583 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Johnson, Joel C. | Joel C. Johnson Farms | 1888 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Wasco | Johnson, James Q.; Johnson, Steven Q. | No | Grain; Cattle; Horses; Sheep. | At time of application: Grain... | No | Saturday, November 30, 1996 | 1997 |
Application; Family history; Newspaper article; Homestead certificates; Maps; Typewritten letter. |
No | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | Maine and Idaho | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0500 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Parrish, Jesse | 1853 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Yamhill | No | 30 acres in prunes, walnuts,... | No |
52 acres in present farm. Jesse Parrish to Jake Parrish (son) to William Parrish (grandson) to Ray Parrish (great grandson). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit; Typewritten letter. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | 0 |