Woodland, Washington Woodland, Washington Location of Woodland, Washington Location of Woodland, Washington Website City of Woodland Woodland is a town/city in Clark and Cowlitz counties in the State of Washington.
Most inhabitants live inside Cowlitz County, in which the majority of the town/city lies.
Identically or similarly titled unincorporated communities (without postal services) with the same name origin exist in Pierce County, Snohomish County, Island County, and Grays Harbor County. Bozarth assembled the first frame home, in what is today Woodland, and titled it "Woodland Farm House." It should be noted, Woodland was not the first trading center on the Lewis River bottoms.
Rarely did the June floods cover the streets of Woodland, but Pekin, assembled on stilts, was flooded almost every June. In 1913, the Lewis River bridge was assembled at Woodland.
In 1948, Woodland experienced one of the greatest floods in its short history, with "Old Town Woodland" being one of the hardest hit areas. Woodland experienced another great flood in 1996, which mostly affected the Northeast residentiary section of the city.
President Bill Clinton attended the town/city during the flood of 1996, using the Woodland High School football field as a landing pad for his helicopter.
Woodland was officially incorporated as a town/city on March 27, 1906.
Woodland is perhaps best known as the home of Hulda Klager (1863 1960), who was a prolific breeder of lilacs.
The "Lilac Lady" Hulda Klager nee Thiel, was long the pride of Woodland.
She immigrated from Germany to Wisconsin in 1865, when she was just two years old, and came West when her family bought a farm in Woodland.
By 1920 she had created such a magnificent array of new hand-pollinated lilacs that she opened her garden on Lilac Week every spring for visitors. The floodwaters of 1948 rolled over her garden, destroying every shrub and hand-pollinated lilac.
By 1950, at the age of eighty-seven, Klager, who loved flowers and who had been honored by the state of Washington as well as such organizations as the nationally famous arboretum at Cambridge, Massachusetts, again opened her home for Lilac Week.
After her death in 1960, the Woodland Federated Garden Club, shocked that the garden might be bulldozed for industry, succeeded in raising cash to buy it and have it declared a state and nationwide historic site. Her home and lilac plant nurseries were saved in 1964 from being torn down to make room for an industrialized site, and are presently maintained as a state and National Historic Landmark by the Lilac Society.
The City of Woodland was incorporated on March 26, 1906 and operates under the laws of the State of Washington applicable to optional code metros/cities (Title 35 - A RCW).
Woodland is also served by a several boards and commissions that play an consultative part to the town/city council.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.48 square miles (9.01 km2), of which, 3.37 square miles (8.73 km2) is territory and 0.11 square miles (0.28 km2) is water. The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 86.4% White, 0.9% African American, 0.7% Native American, 0.8% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 8.4% from other competitions, and 2.7% from two or more competitions.
There were 1,965 homeholds of which 41.8% had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 52.6% were married couples residing together, 13.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.4% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 28.9% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 32.9 years.
29.8% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 9.3% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 27.6% were from 25 to 44; 21.1% were from 45 to 64; and 12.3% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,780 citizens , 1,379 homeholds, and 979 families living in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 93.36% White, 0.34% African American, 0.93% Native American, 0.45% Asian, 0.11% Pacific Islander, 2.83% from other competitions, and 1.98% from two or more competitions.
There were 1,379 homeholds out of which 28.0% had kids over the age of 34 residing with them, 5.6% were married couples residing together,12.0% were single parent homeholds, and 29.0% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 29.3% under the age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24, 29.2% from 25 to 44, 18.5% from 45 to 64, and 13.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
Planters Days is a four-day festival celebrating the instead of assembly of the dikes along the Columbia and Lewis Rivers, preventing the annual flooding in the Woodland area. The primary affairs include: Coronation of the Planter's Day Court, a parade, which travels through "Old Town Woodland, the Firefighter's BBQ, the Frog Jump, amusement rides at Horseshoe Lake Park, and a car show on the last day of the Festival.
Phillips, Washington State Place Names, (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1971), pp.
"History of Woodland - Lewis River Valley".
Virginia Urrutia, They Came to Six Rivers (Kelso, WA: Cowlitz County Historical Society, 1998) pp.
Virginia Urrutia, They Came to Six Rivers (Kelso, WA: Cowlitz County Historical Society, 1998) pp.
Virginia Urrutia, They Came to Six Rivers (Kelso, WA: Cowlitz County Historical Society, 1998) pp.
"Government 101 - About Woodland - Woodland Washington".
Climate Summary for Woodland, Washington United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Woodland Planters Days".
Virginia Urrutia, They Came to Six Rivers: The Story of Cowlitz County (Kelso, WA: Cowlitz County Historical Society, 1998) pp.
The City of Woodland Official website Municipalities and communities of Clark County, Washington, United States Municipalities and communities of Cowlitz County, Washington, United States
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