Woodland, Washington

Woodland sits at the confluence of the Lewis and Columbia rivers, where Adolphus Lewis, a retired Hudson's Bay Company trapper, settled in the late eighteen forties. The river that runs through town still carries the family name. The community went through a succession of names, first the Bottoms, then Pekin, before it was platted as Woodland in eighteen eighty-nine after a farm surrounded by Douglas fir trees.

A post office opened in eighteen eighty-two, and the Northern Pacific Railroad arrived shortly after, though a major flood in eighteen ninety-four wiped out much of the early settlement. The town incorporated in nineteen oh six. Today it serves as the southern gateway to the Mount Saint Helens volcanic corridor, with the Lewis River's three reservoirs stretching into the Cascades behind it.