I originally posted the Kelso-Longview PLACES page on my website on February 7, 2006, and last updated it on May 16, 2010. I have added some new information and a few new pictures. I originally placed Kelso and Longview on the same page, numbering the locations in the same series with the Kelso locations first. I will be differentiating between Kelso and Longview locations in the future, but in order to use the same maps, Longview locations will begin with #7.
Kelso and Longview may be the most historic cities in Washington. There is history all over these two cities, if you only know where to look.
My main resource for this page was R. A. Long's Planned City : The Story of Longview by John M. McClelland, Jr. Another resource is They Came to Six Rivers: The Story of Cowlitz County by Virginia Urrutia. These books can be purchased from the Cowlitz County Historical Museum. I also used The L.P.&N. – Railway of the Planned City by Jim Elliot from the December 2011 issue of the museum’s Cowlitz Historical Quarterly for information about the Longview railroad depot. Other good references were HistoryLink.org: The Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History, the Cowlitz County GenWeb Project, The Daily News, The Cowlitz County Assessor's Parcel Search, the University of Washington Library's Digital Collections, HistoricPhotoArchive.net, the Washington State Railroads Historical Society, the R.A. Long Historical Society, American Classic Images, RRPictureArchives.net and the websites of the cities of Longview and Kelso themselves. Historic photographs were photographed from informational kiosks at Commerce and Broadway.
1: Kelso Commons Park
2: Kelso Station
3: Allen Street Bridge
4: Peter Crawford-Cowlitz Way Bridge
5: Cowlitz County Hall of Justice
6: Kelso City Hall
History of Longview
7: Monticello Hotel
8: Robert A. Long Park
9: Longview Public Library
10: United States Post Office
11: Nutty Narrows Bridge
12: Longview City Hall
13: Lake Sacajawea
14: Columbia Theatre
15: Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Building
16: Rickles Building
17: F.W. Woolworth Building
18: Longview Theater
19: Totem Pole
20: Columbia River Mercantile Building
21: Big Four Building & Lumberman’s Bank Clock
22: “Big Benjamin” Steam Whistle
23: Title Building
24: Roxy Theater
25: St. John Medical Center
26: Sunken Garden
27: Willard Building
28: Monticello Medical Center
29: Y.M.C.A.
30: Sevier & Weed Building
31: Rutherglen Mansion
32: Washington Gas & Electric Building
33: Robert A. Long High School
34: Blackstone Building
35: Longview Fibre
36: Weyerhaeuser Timber Company
37: Lewis & Clark Bridge
38: Harry Morgan Bridge
39: Triangle Mall
40: Former Taco Bell
41: Chinese Village
42: Espresso Express
Continue to Early History of Kelso and Cowlitz County…
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