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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CFR0424 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Miller, Simon | 1863 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Union | Miller, Rodney E. (Mr. and Mrs.) | No | Barn still in use, built with... | hay, fruit, cattle | hay, grain, white-face cattle... | No |
180 acres in original farm. 224 acres in present farm. Farm divided twice |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; Family history (of Simon Miller, Simon Edward Miller and Rodney Edward Miller); Handwritten letter; Certification of ownership. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Switzerland | 2 | |||||||||||
CFR0493 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Coovert, Abram & Martha | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Yamhill |
3 1/2 miles S of Dayton |
May, Russell (Mr. and Mrs.) | No | Hay, grain, berries | No |
18.60 acres in present farm. A. & M. Coovert donated 1 acre to the Webfoot Methodist Church and 1 acre to Dist. 27 to build a school house. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit; Newspaper articles. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0165 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Pitney, John P. & Elizabeth Pitney | 1855 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Pre-emption Claim, Notification # 6430 |
Sec 7 T 16 S R 4 W, W.M. |
Lane | Pitney, Clarence A.; Pitney, James B. | No | No |
171 acres in present farm. Chain of ownership: John & Elizabeth Pitney 1855 to 1873; William & Lucy J. Pitney to 1937; Clarence A. Pitney & James B. Pitney, each 1/2 interest, to date. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Letter of approval; 1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson and great grandson | 3 | |||||||||||||
CFR0264 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Powell, Joseph Ambrose | 1863 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Linn |
3 miles northwest of Lebanon |
Renter | No | barn | wheat, oats, timothy hay | Ryegrass, fescue, oats, barley | No |
165 acres in original farm. 165 acres in present farm |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Handwritten letter. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Illinois | 1 | ||||||||||
CFR0725 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Jackson, Capt. Francis Marion | 1871 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | Certificate # 769 | No |
NW 1/4 of Sec 30 T 2 N R 11 E, W.M., containing 163.6 acres. |
Hood River | Hoffman, Bernice Jackson | No | Cemetary established in 1885. | Dairy and beef stock, hogs,... | Bartlett pears, some hay and... | No |
163.6 acres in original farm. 17.45 acres in present farm. |
Friday, November 30, 1973 | 1974 |
Land deeds; Family History notes; F. M. Jackson and family background; Article |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | Tennessee | 0 | |||||||||
CFR0724 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Lage, Hans | Lage Orchards, Inc. | 1876 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Hood River | Lage, E. Riddell | No | no | Small cleared area used for... | Apples, pears, cherries. | No |
163 1/2 acres in original farm. 284 1/2 acres in present farm. Farm divided 7 times. |
Sunday, November 30, 1975 | 1976 |
Application; Typewritten letter; Deed; Newspaper article; Family sketch entitled "Tears and Cheer of Pioneers"; Excerpt from "History of the Columbia River Valley." Two histories of the Hans Lage family and picture of Hans Lage. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Germany via Iowa | German | 3 | |||||||||
CFR0483 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Owens, Thomas | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Yamhill |
6 miles SW of McMinnville, just off the Muddy Valley Road. |
Handley, Bessie Blanche | No | No |
161 acres in present farm, 1/4 of original DLC. Chain of ownership: Thomas Owens; to Nellie Owens Handley; to Byrd O. and Bessie Blanche Handley to 1958; Bessie Blanche Handley to date. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit; 1960 state fair celebration registration form; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter-in-law | 1 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0644 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Guttridge, Christopher Henney | 1874 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Clackamas |
4 miles SW of Estacada, 1/4 mile S of Springwater Store, Church & Grange. |
Guttridge, Joseph Z. | No | Barn on the property when he... | Grain, cattle, geese, prunes... | Chewings fescue for seed,... | No |
161 acres in original property. 60 acres in present farm. The farm was divided 3 times. Founder built a prune drier & packed & sold prunes to hotels in Portland. 2001, Joe & Wilma own 40 acres, 5 sons jointly own 20 ac. See file for more info. |
Friday, November 30, 1973 | 1974 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Kentucky | Scotland or England | 2 | |||||||||
CFR0219 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Loat, Edward | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
Sec 21 and 28 in T 10 S R 2 W. |
Linn | No | No |
160 acres in present farm. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Typewritten letters; Newspaper articles. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson by marriage (wife was granddaughter) | 0 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0388 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Frizzell, Lillian | 1853 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Polk |
7 miles N of Rickreall |
Frizzell, P. T. | No | General grain, seed crops,... | No |
160 acres in original farmChain of ownership: Lillian Frizzell 1853 to ?; G. L. Frizzell to 1926; P. T. Frizzell to date. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 |