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Welcome to
Downtown Longview, Texas

It was the railroad companies that founded many towns in Texas and Longview is no exception.  In 1870, a land owner and farmer, Ossamus Hitch Methvin deeded 100 acres of land to the Southern Pacific Railroad.  Methvin lived on top of Rock Hill and according to a common story, it was the railroad surveyors standing atop of Rock Hill (the area's tallest point) and near the Methvin home that gave Longview its name. One of the railroad men, impressed with the "long view" from the hill suggested that as the new towns name.