City of Longview

 
Date Visited:   Sunday, June 23, 2002
City Visited #:   201
County:   Cowlitz
Visited With:   Sister
City Name History:   The first planned city in the Pacific Northwest, it is name for its founder R. A. Long, lumber baron, who founded the mill city in 1923. Because of its strategic location on a delta between the Cowlitz and Columbia rivers, it was the site of a Hudson's Bay Co. hide and fur warehouse in 1846.
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