It's like stepping back in time, a visit to the Sandy Historical Society Museum, Carefully curated exhibits conjure a history and peoples who endured hardship and travail to help bring civilization to our piece of Oregon Territory.

What drives a diminutive, clever woman to live and dress as a man in a time when women all wore dresses and focused primarily on running their homes? In the sparsely populated area of Aims, Oregon, Nettie Connett and her son lived in a log cabin built by Connett (she had to rebuild it twice after fires). Married briefly; She sent him packing because he didn’t know how to treat a lady.

Bull Run was selected as the source for Portland’s pure drinking water. Located in the western foothills of Mt. Hood, the Sandy Rivers were also a main source of electricity for Portland. It is believed that the original settlement, which was christened Unavilla, was near to the present-day location of the Bull Run School.