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THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW
September 2013
By N E I L Z AW I C K I
Pamplin Media Group
The Meinig name is part of the
vocabulary in Sandy.
There’s a park, a road, and other
entities that carry the name, which has
become more of a description, an
identi cation of a place in town, or a
reference.
But in fact, the name carries a history
that travels all the way back to Europe,
by way of Cape Horn at the southern tip
of South America, and through Missouri.
Thanks to records kept at the Sandy
Historical Society museum, we know
that Fredrich Meinig was born in Saxony,
Germany, in 1845, and his wife, Bertha,
was born in 1843.
The year 1871, just two years after the
completion of the Transcontinental
Railroad, marks the beginnings of the
Meinig in uence in what would become
Meinigfamilyrailroaded intomovingtoOregon
Once here the Meinigs helped put the city of Sandy on the map
This was the home of Frederich and Bertha (Fischer) Meinig, located in what is now Scenic Meadows in Sandy. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO: SANDY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
