A centennial celebration is already underway -- and will continue for most of this year -- in Longview, the planned community which sprung forth in the southwest part of the state 100 years ago.
The Nutty Narrows Bridge in Longview debuted 60 years ago, and several squirrel-specific bridges are now part of the city's lore. A centennial celebration is already underway — and will continue for most of this year — in Longview, the planned community which sprung forth in the southwest part of the state 100 years ago.
According to lifetime Longview resident Reed Hadley, that timber baron – whose name was Robert A. Long, by the way, meaning he put the “Long” in Longview – was the catalyst for the perfect storm that resulted in Longview’s birth. What the Long-Bell Lumber Company built was a sprawling mill complex and a lot of civic infrastructure, including things like roads, utilities, and schools. The company also sold land to those who wanted to build housing and retail.
And Hadley isn’t just some guy from Longview. He’s the chair of the centennial committee, and his father chaired the 50th-anniversary celebrations back in 1973.“Where is Longview going? I think it’s maybe turning into more of a bedroom retirement community [because] we just can’t get the industry fired up,” Hadley said, though industrial activities are still happening along the town’s riverfront on the Columbia.
Some of those current and currently happy Longviewers – Longviewites? Longviewarians? – might take issue with Hadley’s belief that the city will never become “the entertainment capital of the world.”Which Hadley says was actually saved by a volcanic eruption.saved it. It was scheduled to be demolished on May 19, 1980. And then the mountain blew up, and people were too busy to knock it down.And not unlike how Mount St.
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