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 |
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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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CFR0831 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Domes, Albert | 1892 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No | Polk |
5 miles S of Amity. McCoy-Lincoln Junction, Hwy 99 W. |
Domes, Jerry W. | No | Barn and house. | Ayrshire cattle, wheat, oats... | Wheat, alfalfa, clover,... | No | Monday, November 30, 1992 | 1993 |
Application; Statement form; Deed. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | North Dakota | 2 | |||||||||||
CFR0401 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Ball, Isaac & Abigail Ball | 1850 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Notification # 1910, Claim # 38 | No | No | Polk | Sechrist, Cassie L.; Sechrist, John J. | No | Original farmstead located at... | No |
Chain of ownership: Isaac & Abigail Ball, 640 acres; to Lydia Elizabeth Ball Sears (12th daughter) and Van B. Sears; to Cassie L. Sechrist & John J. Sechrist. Of the 135 acres in present farm, 100 acres of the original farm are included. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Handwritten letters; Typewritten letter; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR0402 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Smith, Absalom and Hylah Smith | 1848 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No |
Sec 11, 12, 13, 14 T 7 S R 5 W |
Polk |
7 1/2 miles NE of Dallas in the Smithfield community |
Smith, Hardin | No | Grain, cattle. | Grain; Cattle. | No |
Founder of Smithfield. 641.75 acres of original farm still in the family. Chain of ownership: Absalom & Hylah Smith; to Samuel Thurston Smith (son); to Hardin Smith (grandson). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | grandson | 0 | |||||||||||
CFR0403 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Riggs, James B. and wife | 1845 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Notification # 1907, Claim # 75 | No | No |
T 6 S R 5 W, W.M., contatining 640 acres. |
Polk |
6 1/2 miles NW of Dallas on Coast Hwy # 22 |
Starr, Silas E. (Mr. and Mrs.) | No | No |
Chain of ownership: James B. Riggs; to nephew, South 1/2 of farm; to great niece to Silas Starr (great great nephew). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Application; Century Farm award certificate. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | |||||||||||||
CFR1061 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Tharp, Abraham; Tharp, Margaret | Tharp Family Farm | 1866 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
T 6, R 7, S 15 |
Polk | Tharp, Virgel Alvin; Tharp, Timothy | No | No | Saturday, November 30, 2002 | 2003 |
Photo; Short family history; Homestead certificate. |
No | No | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
CFR0404 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Ridgeway, John | 1846 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | Claim # 43 | No | No |
Sec 20, 21, 28, 29 T 6 S R 6 W |
Polk |
Mill Creek |
No | No |
Chain of ownership: John Ridgeway to William Ridgeway (son) and Mary E. Ridgeway (daughter); to Mary C. Stewart (daughter of William). |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | Missouri | 0 | ||||||||||||
CFR0542 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Walker, Harvey and Hannah J. | 1889 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
T 6 S R 4 W. |
Polk |
S of Amity |
McKee, Alen | No | House still standing but not... | Grains, sheep, cattle, hay,... | Grass seed and grains. | No | Wednesday, November 30, 1994 | 1995 |
Land deeds. Letter outlining property history. Part of a will. Application. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | 0 | ||||||||||||
CFR1062 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Peters, David D. | 1903 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
T 7, R 5, S 27 |
Polk | Peters, David | No | No | 2003 |
Photo; Farm history; Deeds. |
No | No | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
CFR0405 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Gilliam, Andrew Jackson | 1847 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Yes | No | No | Polk |
5 miles SW of Dallas on the Dallas-Falls City Road. |
No | No |
Chain of ownership: Andrew Jackson Gilliam; to William Douglas Gilliam (son); to Annis Tilgner (granddaughter). 50 acres of original farm in present farm. |
Saturday, November 30, 1957 | 1958 |
Affidavit; Handwritten letter; Typewritten letter; 1959 and 1960 state fair celebration registration forms; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | granddaughter | 2 | |||||||||||||||
CFR0543 | Download Application (PDF) | Century Farm | Mulkey, James Huston | 1883 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | No | No | No |
See attached land deeds. |
Polk | Adams, Raymond G. | No | House. | Hay, horses, cattle. | Hay, llamas, Ryegrass. | No | Wednesday, November 30, 1994 | 1995 |
Application; Statement form; Family tree; Deeds; Newspaper article. |
No | Yes | Mss 1604 | great grandson | 1 |