founding of Longviewcity, Cowlitz county, southwestern Washington, U.S., at the confluence of the Cowlitz and Columbia rivers, 50 miles (80 km) north of Portland, Oregon. A planned community, it was founded in 1923 by R.A. Long of the Long-Bell Lumber Company on the site of old Monticello, where a convention met to seek creation of Washington Territory in 1852. Long planned the city as a community of 75,000 and...
R. A. Long
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