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FINLAY,
TEXASTexas Ghost
Town
Hudspeth County, West Texas
17 miles NW of Sierra
Blanca
on the Southern Pacific Railroad
Population:
0
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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. |
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