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 |
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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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CFR0727 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Kollas, Philip | Kollas Orchards | 1894 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Hood River | Kollas, Alphonse, Jr. | No | House and barn. | Apples (spitz, newtown) | Apples (many varieties),... | No | Tuesday, November 30, 1993 | 1994 |
Application; Statement form; Farm history; Deeds. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Germany via Australia | 2 | |||||||||||
CFR0799 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Schifferer, John Philipp | 1893 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
See attached land deed. |
Marion | Schifferer, Jim C. | No | Barn, root cellar. | Hay, grain, fruit trees,... | Cherries, prunes, hay,... | No | Monday, November 30, 1992 | 1993 |
Application; Statement form; Handwritten letter; Deed. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | Germany via Elgin, Illinois | German | 1 | ||||||||||
CFR0990 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Murray, James Bruce | Flying O Cattle Co. Inc. | 1881 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | Yes |
Purchased property |
Baker |
hughway 26 E of John Day (9 Miles East of Unity) |
Baumeister, Everett and family | No | The original log house is... | Sheep, Horses, Cattle | Sheep, Cattle, Quarter horses... | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Statement form; Handwritten letter; Family history; Obituary; Real property record; Deeds; Family tree; 1990 Century Farm and Historic Lands awards. |
Yes | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | great great grandfather | Montreal, Canada | Canada | 1 | ||||||||
CFR0690 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Walker, James Gibson and Alpharetta (Zahniser) | 1873 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Curry | Walker, Marion; Walker, Mildred | No | no | Dairy & beef cattle,... | Beef cattle. | No |
Site of Pistol River Cheese Factory. |
Monday, November 30, 1992 | 1993 |
Application; Statement form; Handwritten letter; Land deeds; Maps; Family History; "Memoirs of Maude Morse;" Newspaper articles; Family Group Records. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Ontario, Canada | 3 | |||||||||||
CFR0793 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Miller Sr., Henry and Celine Eckerlin Miller | 1888 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Marion |
Cascade Highway "mile 2" |
Miller, Henry Ernest | No | no | Dairy cows, grain, hogs,... | Cattle, sheep, grass seed,... | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Statement form; Handwritten letter; Typewritten letter; Excerpt from "Sublimity: The Story of an Oregon Countryside 1850-1950. |
Yes | Yes | Mss 1604 | son | Denmark and Alsace-Lorraine, France | 2 | |||||||||||
CFR0953 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Wenger, Rudolph | 1889 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
SE 1/4 of the NE 1/4 and the NE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 and Lots 3 and 4 of Sec 29 T 2 S R 3 W , W.M., containing 145.32 acres. |
Yamhill | Chapman, Norman; Chapman, Betty | No | House built in 1908-1912. | Hay, cattle. | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Statement form; Handwritten letters; Typewritten letters; Deed. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | Switzerland | 1 | ||||||||||||
CFR0890 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | McKinnis, John L. | 1872 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
T 1 S R 39 E, W.M., parts of Sections 6, 8, 5, 7. |
Union |
3 miles N of Imbler off Courtney Lane. |
Bingaman, Shawn | No | no | Wheat, hay, oats, cattle. | Wheat, barley, bluegrass hay. | No |
McKinnis was partner in flour mill located in Imbler. |
Monday, November 30, 1992 | 1993 |
Application; Statement form; Handwritten note; Deeds; Map. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | Iowa | 1 | |||||||||
CFR0558 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Kennell, C. R. | C. R. Kennell Farm | 1890 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
T 11 S R 3 W |
Linn | Rolfe, Velma M. (Kennell); Burkholder, Weldon | No | House built in 1890 and white... | Clover, wheat, oats, dairy,... | Grass seed. | No | Thursday, November 30, 1995 | 1996 |
Application; Statement form; Handwritten note; Photocopy of photograph; Deeds; History of Fairview Mennonite Church; Newspaper articles; Handwritten and typewritten letters. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | Thurmon, Colorado | 1 | ||||||||||
CFR0623 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Nyberg, John | 1895 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Washington | Nyberg, John; Nyberg, Arne | No | Onions; Goats; Draft horses;... | At time of application: Hay. | No | Sunday, November 30, 1997 | 1998 |
Application; Statement form; Handwritten note; Typewritten letter; Indirect Index to Deeds; Farm history. |
No | Yes | OHS Field Services Files | 0 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0870 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Denninge, Mathias | 1883 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | Yes | # 721, App. # 1093 | No |
SW 1/4 Sec 2 T 3 N R 33 E, W.M. |
Umatilla |
10 miles NE of Pendleton, OR. |
Woodward, Ethel B.; Woodward, Don A. | No | no | Wheat, some livestock. | Wheat, barley, oats, peas. | No | Thursday, November 30, 1989 | 1990 |
Application; Statement form; Homestead certificate. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | Calumet, Michigan | 1 |