City of Longview Cowlitz County, Washington
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- Feature Type: Incorporated
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| Name | Description |
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| City of Longview | Official |
| Longview | Official |
A Selected Bibliography of City of Longview, Cowlitz County, Washington
A compilation of essential readings detailing the history, geography, and culture of the region.
Longview, the first fifty years 1923-1973 by Longview Golden Jubilee Committee
Longview, the first fifty years 1923-1973 examines the rapid, master-planned urban development situated on the low-lying, flood-prone alluvial plains at the confluence of the Cowlitz and Columbia rivers in southwestern Washington. The Jubilee Committee details how the region's distinct riverine topography—specifically the sprawling riparian marshlands, the shifting estuarine silt, and the vital deep-water access of the Columbia—strictly dictated the massive scale of hydrological engineering required to establish the city. By mapping the aggressive transformation of this swampy delta through extensive dredging, diking, and the imposition of a rigid, radial street grid, the narrative highlights how the specific riparian geography was forcibly molded to anchor a massive timber processing hub. Ultimately, this civic record serves as a localized spatial history, demonstrating how the dynamic hydrological forces and strategic waterway position of this Pacific Northwest landscape fundamentally shaped the highly engineered, industrially defined character of early Longview.
112 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Non-circulating [ 1 ]
Longview, the remarkable beginnings of modern western city by John M. McClelland
John M. McClelland’s Longview, the remarkable beginnings of a modern western city chronicles the aggressive, hyper-calculated corporate colonization and massive hydrological subjugation of a volatile, flood-prone riverine delta situated at the confluence of the Cowlitz and Columbia rivers. The narrative maps how the severe environmental realities of this heavily saturated topography—defined by unstable alluvial marshes, violent seasonal inundations, and the untamed kinetic energy of the Pacific Northwest’s primary aquatic arteries—initially rendered the landscape completely uninhabitable for large-scale terrestrial settlement. By detailing the explosive deployment of colossal, steam-powered dredging infrastructure and the ruthless, grid-based imposition of a fully pre-fabricated urban architecture by the Long-Bell Lumber Company, the text illustrates how the physical and economic survival of the city was strictly dictated by the urgent necessity to artificially elevate, blockade, and master this massive wetland. Ultimately, the account demonstrates that violently burying the natural tidal basin beneath millions of cubic yards of dredged river sand and engineering the world's largest, heavily mechanized timber-processing epicenter were the absolute prerequisites for transforming a geographic void into a highly integrated, instantly modernized corporate anchor of the Pacific edge.
158 pages : illustrations, portraits
Non-circulating [ 1 ]
Cowlitz County
- Ariel
- Beacon Hill
- Bunker Hill
- Caples
- Caples Landing
- Carrolls
- City of Castle Rock
- Coal Creek
- Columbia Heights
- Columbia Valley Gardens
- Cougar
- Davis Terrace
- Eufaula
- Eufaula Heights
- Evergreen Terrace
- Harrington Place
- Headquarters
- City of Kalama
- City of Kelso
- Kid Valley
- Lexington
- City of Longview
- Longview Heights
- Longview Junction
- Monticello (historical)
- Oak Point
- Olequa
- Ostrander
- Pigeon Springs
- Pleasant Hill
- Rose Valley
- Ryderwood
- Saint Helens
- Sandy Bend
- Sightly
- Silver Lake
- Stella
- Toutle
- Valley View Tracts
- Vision Acres
- West Kelso
- West Longview
- City of Woodland
- Woodland Park
- Yale
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Last updated: 2017-07-02