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Synopsis
In 1918 R.A. Long, head of the Long-Bell Lumber Company of Kansas City, made the decision to begin an logging and lumbering operation in Washington State. Thus began the chain of events that resulted not only in the construction of the biggest sawmill on Earth, but in the birth of a planned city that rose from a floodplain at the confluence of the Cowlitz and Columbia rivers. Instead of acquiring just enough land for the millsite, Long-Bell purchased nearly 14,000 acres of wet brushy land and set about to build a city. Giving life to the new city - Longview - became as much a part of the Long-Bell mission in the Northwest as harvesting and milling the old-growth Douglas fir that had brought it to Washington.
This book chronicles the unique origins and development of the city built in the Northwest by a Southern lumber company. Long after the last remnants of the Long-Bell Lumber Company have disappeared, the city it created remains, a living reminder of the vision and energy of its founder, Robert Alexander Long.
Illustrated with approximately 100 photographs. December 1923 Longview census.
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About the Author
John M. McClelland, Jr. is a journalist with a keen interest in the history of the Pacific Northwest. He moved to Longview, Washington, in 1923, the year of its founding, when his father was hired as manager of the Longview Daily News. John McClelland, Jr. later became editor and publisher of the Daily News. He chronicled the history of Longview in an earlier volume, Longview: The Remarkable Beginnings of a Modern Western City, published in 1949. He expanded on that history in R.A. Long's Planned City: The Story of Longview, originally published in the mid-1970s. The current volume is the 75th anniversary edition of that work, updated to includ events of Longview's third quarter-century.
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- PublisherWestmedia Corporation
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0966487702
- ISBN 13 9780966487701
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages276
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