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unusual facts about Longview, Portland and Northern Railway


Gardiner, Oregon

A railroad, the Longview, Portland & Northern (LP&N), served the IP mill until it closed.


Dale A. Lunsford

Dr. Dale A. Lunsford is the sixth president of LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas.

Daron Roberts

Daron K. Roberts (born November 29, 1978 in Longview, Texas) is a defensive quality control assistant for the Cleveland Browns (American football).

Just Like Me

The tune itself was written by Rick Dey and Rich Brown of the Longview-based band The Wilde Knights.

Kelso High School

Kelso has a very long history and tradition with two local rivalries across the Cowlitz River in Longview; R.A. Long and Mark Morris high schools.

KKLS

Southwest Washington Regional Airport (ICAO airport code: KKLS), formerly known as Kelso-Longview Regional Airport

KPXJ

It was the first, and to this day, only locally-produced primetime newscast in the market (Fox affiliate KMSS-TV, channel 33, also airs a 9 p.m. newscast, though it runs only on weeknights and is produced by sister station KFXK-TV in Longview, Texas).

KTPN-LD

KLPN-LD rebroadcasts KTPN's signal across the central and eastern portions of the market and is licensed to Longview.

KWKT-TV

The pre-taped newscast is produced by sister station KFXK-TV in Longview, Texas.

Kyle Mackey

As a student (at Spring Hill High School in Longview, Texas) he set multiple passing records and was selected to the all-state team in both his Junior and Senior years.

Lone Star Brewing Company

Detroit-based Stroh Brewery Co. then bought Heileman and closed the San Antonio brewery in 1996 moving beer production to Longview, Texas and signaling the end of San Antonio as a major brewing town.

Longview Race Riot

After the shootout, Meredith telephoned a farmer named Jim Stephens, who lived about five miles west of Longview, at Willow Springs, and asked him to stop Bush.

The most influential African American literature to circulate in Longview was The Chicago Defender, a weekly newspaper with nationwide coverage and circulation.

Longview, Alberta

In 1991, Clint Eastwood's Academy Award-winning film Unforgiven was filmed in and around Longview, as was the television film starring Tom Selleck, Monte Walsh.

Longview, Portland and Northern Railway

Beginning in 1954, the "LP&N" operated a three-mile-long short-line railroad on the Oregon Coast that connected the International Paper plant to the Southern Pacific interchange just outside of Gardiner, Oregon.

Oliver Winfield Killam

The third oil well drilled by Killam brought about an oil boom in Mirando City in eastern Webb County nearly a decade before the better known East Texas Oil Boom centered about Kilgore and Longview.

Robert Henry Guinn

Notable descendents of Robert Henry Guinn include Leland A. Guinn, Architect, of Longview, Texas, whose contributions include portions of the Kilgore College campus; as well as Colin Guinn, contestant on The Amazing Race 5.

Shamrock Basketball Association

Included in these locations are the following Texas cities: Dallas, Fort Worth, Forney, Richardson, Irving, Tyler, Longview, Conroe, College Station, Waco, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Lubbock, Abilene, and Midland.

Taco Time Northwest

Today, the company serves as headquarters to 73 restaurants, spanning from Bellingham to Longview, and including locations in Eastern Washington (Moses Lake and East Wenatchee).

Touch the Truck

The documentary, Hands on a Hardbody tells the story of a nearly identical 1995 endurance contest in Longview, Texas.


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