Longview

Longview, city, 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 set forth regulations on every aspect of...