Finlay
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 31.259, -105.630
Why it was abandoned
❔ Cause unknown
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History
Finlay, Texas is a ghost town in Hudspeth County, Texas, United States, 17 miles (27 km) west of Sierra Blanca. The community was named after J.R. Finlay an early settler in the area who also lent his name to the nearby Finlay Mountains. It had two post offices. One was built in 1890, but never opened. The other was established in 1903. Finlay slowly grew in the early 20th century, but the last population figure was one hundred inhabitants in the 1940s.