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===18th–19th centuries===
[[File:Sir Francis Baring, 1st Bt.jpg|thumb|left|upright|The [[Sandy River (Oregon)|Sandy River]], which runs through the city boundary and from which it takes its name, was originally named the Baring River after [[Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet]].]]
Sandy was founded after pioneer [[Sam Barlow (pioneer)|Sam Barlow]] passed through the area in 1845 and formed [[Barlow Road]], the most widely-used final portion of the [[Oregon Trail]].<ref name=tour>{{cite web|work=Clackamas County Tourism & Cultural Affairs|editor=Suter-Warner, Kathryn H.|title=Historic Sandy Downtown Tour|url=https://evogov.s3.amazonaws.com/media/88/media/20511.PDF|access-date=October 31, 2018}}</ref>{{sfn|McArthur|2003|pages=52–53}} The first white people to settle the area were Francis and Lydia Revenue, {{circa}} 1853.<ref name=tour/> The abundance of natural resources in the area, ranging from fish, deer, elk, berries and roots, attracted them to build a homestead and [[trading post]].<ref name=tour/> Around 1873, the Revenues built the city's first hotel.<ref name=tour/>

Initially known as Revenue (after the Revenue family), in the late 19th century the settlement took its namesake of Sandy from the nearby [[Sandy River (Oregon)|Sandy River]], which itself had taken its name from [[Meriwether Lewis]] and [[William Clark]] during their [[Lewis and Clark Expedition|1805 expedition]], who at that time named it the "Quicksand River" due to the abundance of sand on its banks.<ref name=river>{{cite book|title=Oregon Historical Quarterly|year=1927|publisher=[[Oregon Historical Society]]|volume=28|location=Portland, Oregon|page=92}}</ref> The river had priorly been named the Barings River after [[Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet]], an English merchant banker, by Lieutenant W.R. Broughton of the [[Fort Vancouver]] expedition on October 30, 1792.<ref name=river/>

A second hotel was erected in Sandy in 1890 by Baron Otto Von Scholley, an [[Austria]]n immigrant who also served as the city's second postmaster and first [[notary]].<ref name=tour/> In 1894, the city completed its first church, St. Michael's [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic Church]], established by [[Benedictines|Benedictine]] monks, which had its first service on December 18 that year.{{sfn|Bosserman|2015|p=51}} Though the original building was destroyed in a fire two decades later, it was relocated and reopened.{{sfn|Bosserman|2015|p=51}}