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Ryderwood, Washington, in Cowlitz County, was a community imagined and developed by timber baron R.A. Long of Long-Bell Lumber. While nearby Longview was a planned community to support Long’s lumber mill, Ryderwood was a planned community nestled in the heart of timber country. From 1923 through 1953, the families that lived in Ryderwood worked the surrounding forests until the resources became scarce. When the town was sold, it was reinvented as the first senior-citizens community in the state and remains…