Funk(y) Files

  • Ken Funk

    Docent/Staff

  • Its's just odd, it's not weird.

    While everyone knows about Lewis & Clark, Mt. Hood, and the Barlow Trail, the Oregon Trail School District has also been home to many other interesting places, faces, wildlife, and oddities.

    Listen below as Historian Ken Funk shares short tales from the larger Sandy Oregon area.

04) Skiing Display

Sandy is a gateway to Mt. Hood and its fantastic slopes.

Skiing crampons rope ice-ax

03) Black Powder Log Splitter

When we think of splitting timber we often think of Axes, Wedges, and Mauls;

but what about gunpowder?

Black Powder log splitter embedded in stump.

02) Bell/Koch Timber Mill

Founded in 1940, the largest Mill in the Sandy area employed over 100 people.

01) Crawford Fur Trapper Mark

The oldest of three early Fur Trapper Marks found in Oregon.