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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CFR0695 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Martindale, Alston | Martindale Century Farm | 1853 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Douglas | Bright, Harold | No | no | Cattle, horses, hogs, poultry... | Different hay crops, gardens... | No |
320 acres in original farm. 40 acres in present farm. Farm divided 6 times. Donated 1 acre for cemetary. Built fort agains Indian attacks. Ran stage station from home. Alston was postmaster for the Valley from 1879-1898. |
Sunday, November 30, 1975 | 1976 |
Application; Certification of ownership. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | Switerland County, Indiana | 2 | ||||||||||
CFR0728 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Myer, W. C. | 1870 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Jackson | Billings, John S. | No | Barn with some additions.... | Jersey cows (first Jersey... | Hay crops, beef cattle. | No |
Possibly several 1000 acres in original farm. 150 acres in present farm. Farm divided once. |
Friday, November 30, 1973 | 1974 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Newspaper articles; "The Best Draft Horse", brochure by W. C. Myer. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | Kansas City, Missouri | 2 | |||||||||||
CFR0679 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Flam, John | 1872 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
Lots 3 & 4, S 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of Sec 2 T 29 S R 14 W, W.M., containing 156.8 acres. |
Coos |
Bear Creek, about 6 miles SE of Bandon. |
Son of applicant | No | no | Wheat and other farm products | Livestock. | No |
120 acres in original farm and present farm. |
Friday, November 30, 1973 | 1974 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Deed; Typewritten letter. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | Pilgerfdorf, Hungary to Minnesota to San Francisco | 1 | |||||||||
CFR0680 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Flam, John | 1872 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Coos |
Bear Creek |
Ertel, Edward (Mr. and Mrs.) | No | yes | Hay, corn, carrots,... | Sheep, cattle. | No |
160 acres in original farm. 320 acres in present farm. |
Friday, November 30, 1973 | 1974 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Typewritten letter. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | great great granddaughter | Pilgersdorf, Hungary | 1 | ||||||||||
CFR0718 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Ingle, William B. "Billy" and Julia Ingle | 1869 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Grant | Lemons, Dennis | No | no | Hay, cattle, horses. | Cattle, hay. | No |
"William Ingle's daughter, Larue F. Ingle, married John W. Lemons and it has been in the Lemon family since that time." (1) NOTE 1: Information for update was provided by the Grant County Historical Society, 8/16/2000. |
Friday, November 30, 1973 | 1974 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | Illinois | 4 | |||||||||||
CFR0880 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Davis, John S. | 1872 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | No | Union |
5 miles west of North Powder |
Renter | No | Many original split rail... | Hay, grain, horses, mules,... | No |
80 acres in original farm. 1300 acres in present farm. |
Friday, November 30, 1973 | 1974 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Biographical excerpt from "Union and Wallowa Counties"; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | Midland, Michigan | 1 | |||||||||||
CFR0735 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Loosley, John | 1873 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Klamath |
2 1/2 miles South of Fort Klamath |
Daughter of applicant | No | no | Hay, livestock. | Pasture, livestock. | No |
160 acres in original farm. 243 acres in present farm. Farm divided once. |
Friday, November 30, 1973 | 1974 |
Application; Typewritten letter; Certification of ownership; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | ||||||||||||
CFR0687 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | McKenzie, Robert | 1874 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Curry |
Elk River to North |
Wahl, Georgina | No | Burned in 1936 coast fire. | Timber, cows. | Sheep, cattle. | No |
Indians lived on the farm & there is a burial site on the ranch. Brought first "donkey engine" to the area. Had a dairy ranch and shipped butter to San Francisco. 840 acres in present farm. |
Friday, November 30, 1973 | 1974 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Typewritten letter; Newspaper articles. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | Scotland via Australia | 0 | ||||||||||
CFR0881 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Rynearson, William & John | 1864 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
W 1/2 of the W 1/2 of Sec 32 T 2 S R 38 E, W.M., containing 160 acres. |
Union | Rynearson, G. W. | No | Original house still in use,... | Barley, wheat, oats, hogs,... | Wheat, barley, alfalfa,... | No |
160 acres in original farm. 21 acres in present farm. Farm was divided 6 times. Indians, led by Black Hawk, spent summers on the property. 1st road built by Union Co. divided the Ryearson land. |
Friday, November 30, 1973 | 1974 |
Application; Certification of ownership; Deeds; Last will and testament; Newspaper article; Farm history. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Pennsylvania | 2 | ||||||||||
CFR0945 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Scott, John C.; Scott, Sally Harper | 1874 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Yamhill |
4 miles North of McMinnville |
Sitton, Charles E., Sr. (Mrs.) and family | No | House. | Cows (milk), hogs, chickens. | grain | No |
160 acres in original farm. 160 acres in present farm. |
Friday, November 30, 1973 | 1974 |
Application; Certification of ownership; |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | Widow of Charles, grandson of Scott | Virginia | 2 |