About Longview, Washington

Longview is a city of 37,818 people in Cowlitz County, where the Cowlitz River meets the Columbia. After World War I, the Long-Bell Lumber Company of Kansas City was running out of good timber in the South. It bought forest in the Northwest, including the right to log 70,000 acres in Cowlitz and Lewis counties. In early 1921 Robert A. Long picked this flat, swampy farmland for the company's mill and paid $2,611,103 for 14,000 acres.

Nearby Kelso had fewer than 2,000 people, far too few to house the mill's workers. Long would not let a rough mill town spring up on its own. In 1922 he hired Jesse C. Nichols, George B. Kessler and Sidney Herbert Hare to plan a city for 50,000, with wide boulevards running out from a six-acre civic center. Some 10,000 people came to the dedication on July 12, 1923. The city was incorporated on February 14, 1924, and four months later the new mill, called the largest in the world, began cutting lumber.

  • A name bought for $25Longview takes its name from the horse farm that Long owned in Lees Summit, Missouri, which covered 1,600 acres. When Long-Bell asked for a post office, the government refused, because Washington already had a Long View: a railroad flag stop in Benton County used by three farm families. They agreed to give up the name if the company built them a covered mail platform, which cost $25.
  • Monticello and statehoodHarry and Rebecca Jane Huntington led the first Euro-American settlers here in 1849, and the place was called Monticello after Jefferson's home. In 1852 settlers met at the Monticello Convention and asked Congress for a new state named Columbia. Congress agreed but chose the name Washington. Monticello was the county seat from 1854 to 1865, and a Cowlitz River flood in December 1867 destroyed it. A monument to the convention stands near the Civic Center.
  • A dike 15 miles longThe river delta sat on a high water table and flooded from time to time, so the land could not be built on until it was protected. Long-Bell sold bonds to pay for a dike 15 miles long, standing 30 feet above the river, along with drainage canals. The work cost $3.25 million.
  • Hotel Monticello, 1923The first permanent building in the new city was the six-story Hotel Monticello, in the Georgian Revival style, facing Jefferson Square, now R. A. Long Park. It opened for business on July 23, 1923, with 200 rooms, each with its own bathroom. Buyers and business visitors stayed there while they looked over land for sale, and it became the place for the city's big events.

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Names on the Longview map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks4

  • Longview City Office
  • Columbia Valley Gardens
  • West Kelso
  • West Longview

Streets and roads168

  • Mount Solo Road
  • Industrial Way
  • Westside Highway
  • Third Avenue
  • Tennant Way
  • Ocean Beach Highway
  • First Avenue
  • Washington Way
  • Oregon Way
  • Nichols Boulevard
  • Louisiana Street
  • 17th Avenue
  • 27th Avenue
  • Northwest Nichols Boulevard
  • Larch Street
  • East Kessler Boulevard
  • 30th Avenue
  • 32nd Avenue
  • 15th Avenue
  • Beech Street
  • Maple Street
  • 38th Avenue
  • Pacific Way
  • Hudson Street
  • 20th Avenue
  • Columbia Heights Road
  • 23rd Avenue
  • Seventh Avenue
  • Olympia Way
  • 21st Avenue
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  • 22nd Avenue
  • Hemlock Street
  • 18th Avenue
  • Pennsylvania Street
  • Oak Street
  • 19th Avenue
  • Douglas Street
  • Florida Street
  • Baltimore Street
  • 14th Avenue
  • 28th Avenue
  • 16th Avenue
  • Fir Street
  • Cypress Street
  • 24th Avenue
  • Cascade Way
  • Dike Road
  • Laurel Road
  • Ninth Avenue
  • Commerce Avenue
  • Memorial Park Drive
  • 25th Avenue
  • 26th Avenue
  • City View Boulevard
  • 42nd Avenue
  • Fibre Way
  • 33rd Avenue
  • Delaware Street
  • Frontage Road
  • Ohio Street
  • Terminal Way
  • 36th Avenue
  • Kessler Boulevard
  • California Way
  • Pine Street
  • 34th Avenue
  • Colorado Street
  • Tenth Avenue
  • Ammons Drive
  • Prudential Boulevard
  • Terry Avenue
  • Columbia Boulevard
  • Garfield Street
  • Field Street
  • Solo View Drive
  • Glenwood Drive
  • Oriole Drive
  • Hillcrest Drive
  • 40th Avenue
  • Taylor Avenue
  • East Port Way
  • Olive Way
  • Evergreen Street
  • Dover Street
  • Nebraska Street
  • Sewage Lagoon Street
  • 48th Avenue
  • 50th Avenue
  • Virginia Way
  • 52nd Avenue
  • Magnolia Street
  • Castleman Drive
  • Barlow Point Road
  • 29th Avenue
  • Lilac Street
  • Robbins Street
  • River Road
  • Lone Oak Road
  • Dorothy Avenue
  • Cedar Place
  • Wildwood Drive
  • Corman Road
  • 37th Avenue
  • Spruce Street
  • Cowlitz Way
  • Blue Heron Drive
  • Twelfth Avenue
  • Maryland Street
  • Maplewood Drive
  • Port Way
  • 46th Avenue
  • Rosewood Street
  • Curtis Drive
  • Sunset Way
  • Pacific Place
  • Madrona Drive
  • Morse Park Way
  • Totem Lane
  • Pershing Way
  • West Hills Drive
  • Washington Street
  • Schneiter Drive
  • Marine View Drive
  • Pennsylvania Place
  • Finch Drive
  • Parkview Drive
  • Lindsey Drive
  • Acorn Lane
  • Indian Creek Drive
  • Indian Hills Drive
  • Park Hill Drive
  • Freedom Way
  • Cedar Lane
  • Hoehne Avenue
  • Susan Avenue
  • Harding Street
  • Peters Drive
  • William Avenue
  • Ivy Avenue
  • 35th Avenue
  • Elm Street
  • Eleventh Avenue
  • West Kessler Boulevard
  • Michigan Street
  • Fishers Lane
  • Paper Way
  • Aspen Drive
  • Estate Drive
  • Unnamed Logging Road
  • Rutherglen Drive
  • Gibbs Lane
  • Scott Street
  • Julie Place
  • Lynn Place
  • Heritage Boulevard
  • Northlake Avenue
  • View Ridge Circle
  • Merlin Street
  • Island Drive
  • Redwood Avenue
  • Jennifer Place
  • Sires Lane
  • Marigold Street
  • Wren Drive
  • Coal Creek Road
  • Wheeler Street
  • Willow Place
  • Selix Lane

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