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 |
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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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CFR0357 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Esson, Alexander & Christina Stevens | Maple Hill Farm | 1866 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Marion | Ewing, Evanelle Esson; Renter. | No | No. Ida Esson Memorial... | beef cattle, pigs, corn, oats... | sheep, horses, strawberries,... | No |
In 1861 Alexander Esson purchased the first portion of this farm from Joseph & Virginia Cox. (This is different land) In 1866 he purchased additional land from Milton & Celia B. Young, which was a portion of the John C. Carey DLC. 320 acres in original and present farm. ***8/31/15 Update actual founding date is 1866, as the land purchased from Cox is different than the land from Milton Young (deed is being supplied for records which is the origination of the farm), the property purchased in 1861 was sold prior to purchase of this farm in 1866. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Email correspondence; Handwritten notes; Deed. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1605 | granddaughter | Scotland via New York | 2 | ||||||||||
CFR0180 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Millican, Robert | 1865 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Lane |
Walterville |
Millican, Ada B. | No | one barn | grain, hay, corn, cattle, hogs | Hay, grain, cattle, sheep | No |
160 acres in original farm. 321.70 acres in present farm. John Latta sold his DLC to Robert Millican in 1865. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; Typewritten letter; Certification of ownership; Deeds, Map; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | daughter-in-law | New York | 3 | ||||||||||
CFR0145 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Brown, Henry R. | 1859 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Jackson | Bradshaw, Merton | No | Hay; Horses. | At time of application: Hay;... | No | Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; Memo; Certification of ownership. |
No | Yes | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
CFR0260 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Carns, William | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Linn |
8 miles East of Harrisburg |
Renter | No | Yes. Barn and part of house... | Grain; Hay; Oats; Wheat feed... | At time of application:... | No |
320 acres in original farm. 306 acres in present farm. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | Illinois | 1 | ||||||||||
CFR0358 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Keil, Fredrick | 1856 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | 160 acres homesteaded by Oscar Cone. Bought by Hugo Keil in 1856. | No | Marion | Keil, Hugo P. | No | None in use. House was built... | wheat, oats, apples, stock | grass, beef stock | No |
160 acres in original farm. 42 acres in present farm. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Missouri | 2 | ||||||||||
CFR0181 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Nighswander, Francis Marion | 1862 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
T S 19 R 5 Sec 9 |
Lane | Nighswander, Jasper Merle | No | no | horses, hay, cattle, sheep | cattle, hay, tree farm | No |
160 acres in original farm. Approx. 145 acres in present farm. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | son | Ohio to California | 1 | ||||||||||
CFR0146 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Payne, Champion T. | 1869 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Jackson | Carr, Robert M. (Mr. and Mrs.) | No | no | Hogs, grain, horses, cows,... | Pears, hay, pasture, cows,... | No |
1000 acres in original farm. 28.2 acres in present farm. See CFR0147 regarding Ethel Alford's 1/2 of farm. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1970 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | Sheridan Co., Missouri | 2 | |||||||||||
CFR0261 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Looney, Anthony S. | 1865 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Linn | No | Original house burned in 1898... | wheat, oats, hay, orchard,... | rye grass, orchard grass,... | No | Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Route slip; Handwritten note. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Missouri | 3 | |||||||||||||
CFR0359 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Yergen, August | 1855 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Marion |
Rt. 2 Aurora, Oregon |
Brother of applicant | No | no | grain, hay, cattle | grain, hay | No |
320 acres in original farm. 68 acres in present farm (divided 2 times). Certification of Ownership notes that property is recorded in 1864 Marion County Deed Records. |
Monday, November 30, 1964 | 1965 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Handwritten letter; Typewritten letter. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | Muscatine, Iowa | 0 | ||||||||||
CFR0128 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | LaBrie, Ferdinand | 1866 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Douglas |
Farm at Garden Valley |
Ritchie, LaBrie | No | yes | Wheat, cattle. | Wheat, alfalfa, cattle. | No |
800 acres in original farm. 200 acres in present farm. |
Sunday, November 30, 1969 | 1970 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | Canada | 3 |