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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CFR0982 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Ranch | Messal Sr., William | 1880 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from Rosie Messal |
T 36 R2E Section 8 |
Jackson | Peile, Maxine | No | Original barn is still... | Hay, Cattle, Garden pigs | Cattle, Sheep, Pasture | No |
"Over the generations the ranch has been added to. It began as 160 acres, and is now 880 acres. There are 3 generations here now -- yet only Maxine lives on the original 160." |
Tuesday, November 30, 1999 | 2000 |
Application; Statement of affirmation; Handwritten letters; Newspaper article; Excerpt from "A History of Eagle Point"; Typewritten letter; Birth certificate; Marriage certificate; Chain of title; Deeds. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | great niece by marriage | Germany ["Schwaben - Colonic - Prenfsen"] ["Bayern Province"] | Germany | 1 | ||||||||
CFR0009 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hayden, Thomas C. | 1855 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | #38 | No | No |
T 14 S R 8 W |
Benton | Earnest, Pearl Hayden | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Notarized ownership document |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | ||||||||||||||
CFR0142 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Chavner, Thomas | 1856 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | Yes |
More land was purchased at a later date. |
Jackson | Thompson, Margaret Chavner | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
CFR0289 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Claggett, Charles | 1852 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Marion | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
CFR0561 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Etzel, Joseph | 1896 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
Sec 4 T 9 R 1 E |
Marion | Etzel, Theodore Miles | No | Part of the house. | unknown | Strawberries, sweet corn,... | No | Thursday, November 30, 1995 | 1996 |
Application; Handwritten notes; Photographs; Deed; Typewritten letters. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Russia via Kansas | 2 | |||||||||||
CFR0691 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Henderer, Charles G. | 1859 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Douglas | Clemo, Arlyn L. | No | no | Oats, wheat, cheat, horses,... | Pigs, cattle, barley, hay,... | No |
141.2 acres in present farm. Farm was divided 5 times. |
Friday, November 30, 1973 | 1974 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | Germany | 3 | |||||||||||
CFR0948 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Dundas, Jr., James | 1879 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased from C.L. and Alice Easterbrook |
Yamhill | Dundas, Roy W., Jr. | No | One barn, one grainery, house... | Red Chaff wheat, dairy cattle... | Row crops (green bush beans,... | No |
NOTE 1: Application says "won siler medal and award for red chaff whear in sheaf at 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition." Land has been divided -- "one parcel to Pope and talbot for roadway and log boom, one parcel to Roy and Patricia Dundas." |
Friday, November 30, 1984 | 1985 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Typewrittten letters; 1985 award application notice; Naturalization papers for James Dundee Jr. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | grandson | Iowa | 2 | ||||||||||
CFR0107 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Hayhurst, William | 1857 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Douglas | Hubbell, Atalanta | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
CFR0257 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Kirk, Henry H. | 1860 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Linn | Kirk, Raymond S. | No | Oats; Wheat | At time of application: Oats... | No | Monday, November 30, 1959 | 1960 |
Application; Typewritten and handwritten letters; 1960 state fair registration form; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0389 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Gardner, Samuel J. | 1844 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Polk |
7 miles SW of Dallas in the Bridgeport community |
Gardner, Wiley; Gardner, Kenneth | No | No |
322 acres in original and present farm. Chain of ownership: Samuel Gardner to Chester C. Gardner (his son) to Wiley Gardner (grandson) and Kenneth Gardner (greatgrandson). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Affidavit. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson & great grandson | 0 |