Woodland is a city in Clark and Cowlitz counties in the State of Washington. Most residents sentient within Cowlitz County, in which the majority of the city lies. It is portion of the ‘Longview, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area’. The population was 5,509 at the 2010 census.

Hudson’s Bay Company retiree Adolphous Le Lewes (alternate spelling: Lewis) established a homestead at the mouth of what is today known as the Lewis River, in 1849 (The Lewis River is the namesake of A. Le Lewes, not Meriwether Lewis as is generally believed). Two Iowa families, related by marriage, came next: the Solomon Strongs filed a allegation in September 1850 and the Squire Bozarths filed a claim in December of the similar year. Bozarth built the first frame house in present-day Woodland and named it “Woodland Farm House.” Other to the lead settlers enhance Columbia Lancaster, Milly Bozarth (wife of Squire), McKenzie and Jane Caples, and Brandt and Hans Kraft. After a few years, Christopher Columbus Bozarth (Better known as C.C., and the namesake for C.C. street in Woodland), a son of Squire Bozarth, opened a collection and named it “Woodland,” after his father’s farm. Woodland eventually grew upon the spot where the stock was located.

Woodland was not the first trading center on the Lewis River bottoms. Pekin (now known as part of the Woodland Bottoms) deserves that credit. The Pekin gathering and Post Office was standard in 1867 or 1868 by James Woods and F.H. Marsh. Pekin continued as the trading middle until the Woodland accretion and Post Office were established. Woodland was more centrally located and on higher ground. Rarely did the June floods cover the streets of Woodland, but Pekin, built on stilts, was flooded nearly all June.

On March 26, 1856, the only recorded Indian antagonism occurred in the same way as some members of the Yakima tribe came all along to burn out the settlers. Indian Zack, one of the few surviving Cowlitz tribe members, had already warned the settlers who evacuated to the Block House in St. Helens until the Yakimas returned to east of the Cascade Mountains. There was back a monument to Indian Zack at a water fountain at Horseshoe Lake Park.

Woodland was platted by A.W. Scott on October 14, 1889, the thesame year that Washington gained statehood. It was incorporated as a town in 1906, and L. Hopf was the first mayor. In 1907, the first sewer system was begun, and the first telephone service settlement was decided to Northwestern Telephone. At that time, there were daily stops by the steamers the Alarm and the Lucy Mason, as skillfully as railroad facilitate from Kalama to Portland. In 1913, the Lewis River bridge was built at Woodland. Prior to that time, there was isolated ferry bolster across the river. The present bridges where Interstate 5 crosses the Lewis, and the dike creating Horseshoe Lake were begun in 1940. In 1925, the Woodland Fire Department was organized and a blaze station was erected. The first hotels and restaurants were built in the 1890s. The Woodland Grange now occupies the building that was the Hobb Hotel.