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Washington—Longview

Longview is a planned city that was conceptualized between 1919 – 1922 when the Long–Bell Lumber Company purchased 14,000 acres of the Columbia River Valley bottom to build a mill site and accompanying town. J.C. Nichols, a planner and close personal friend of Robert A. Long, Long–Bell Chairman, proposed a large–scale city plan that could accommodate 50,000 inhabitants. Mr. Long agreed and appointed Nichols to assemble a planning team. Nichols chose George Kessler, a city planner who was well known for his contributions to Kansas City, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Wichita Falls, Mexico City, and the 1904 St. Louis Exposition. The respected landscape architectural and town planning firm of Hare & Hare was also engaged and drafted the actual plans and plats of the new city.

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