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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CFR0008 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Bethers, George W. | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
T 12 R 5 |
Benton | Ingle, Hallie A. | No | No |
Applicant Hallie A. Ingle owned 195 acres of the original DLC at the time of application. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Notarized ownership document; 1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great granddaughter (Jeanette); granddaughter-in-law (Hallie) | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0306 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hunsaker, Thomas H. | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from the homestead of Samuel and Matilda Fields |
Marion |
3.5 miles SW of Turner |
No | At time of application: Fruit... | No |
The current farm is about 96 acres. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Notarized statement. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0355 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Smith, John F. | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Marion | Smith, A. J. | No | Historic: Lumber; Cattle;... | At time of application: Fruit... | No | Monday, November 30, 1959 | 1960 |
Application; Typewritten letters; 1960 state fair celebration registration form. |
No | Yes | Son | 2 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0010 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Henderson, Perman | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased 320 acres from Issac Foster DLC # 62 |
T 12 S, R 6 W |
Benton | Edwards, Mary F.; Jarvis, Esther P.; Thielmann, Kathryn | No | No |
At the time of application, the three applicants owned 126 acres of the original DLC. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Notarized ownership document |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughters | 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 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0011 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Elliott, William H. | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #40 | No | No |
T 11 S R 4 W |
Benton | Elliott, Darrell | No | Yes |
"My husband's great grandfather William H. Elliott traded a yoke of oxen for the Homestead rights to the original Donation Land Claim." Applicant still has 90 acres of the original DLC. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Typewritten letters. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson and his wife | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0373 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Jenne family | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
T 1 S R 2 E |
Multnomah | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Typewritten letters. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
CFR0012 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Elliott, William H. | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #40 | No | No |
T 11 S R 4 W |
Benton | Greener, Irene Elliott | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Typewritten letters. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great granddaughter | 0 | ||||||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0030 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Schultz, George | 1858 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
80 acres in S.E. 1/4 of SW 1/4 of SW1/4 S.E. 1.4 of section 35 T 14 R 5 |
Benton | No | No |
After death of George Schultz, property was passed to Dallas Harpole then to the applicants mother, then to applicant in 1952. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1957 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great granddaughter | 0 |