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History
in a Pecan Shell
Named after settler J. R. Finlay, who also loaned his name for the nearby
mountain range, a post office was established in 1890 but never officially opened.
A second one was established in 1903 and in 1914 the town was described as "a
rural post office" on the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway.
The town's most notable business was a grocery. By the mid-1930s Finlay's estimated
population was twenty-five but the town seems to have grown during the Great Depression.
In the mid 1940s there were 100 Findlayans there, but in the early 1970s it was
only a railroad stop. |
1940s
Hudspeth County map showing Finlay NW of Sierra
Blanca
Courtesy Texas General Land Office | |
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