Finlayson, MN

Finlayson is a city in Pine County, Minnesota, United States. The 2020 census counted 295 residents. The city's area was incorporated from Finlayson Township, the remainder of which is still adjacent to it. Finlayson Township, organized October 22, 1895, and the city in Finlayson and Pine Lake Townships were named in honor of David Finlayson, the former proprietor of a sawmill in this village. Finlayson is served by the Hinckley-Finlayson Public Schools. The district was established in 1994 by consolidating the Hinckley and Finlayson districts. That mix gives Finlayson a clear local shape within Minnesota, with older layers still visible in current places.

The local scoop is a place whose streets, landmarks, and institutions keep its earlier story close to the present. The city was incorporated as a village on August 24, 1905; it had a station of the Northern Pacific Railroad, a sawmill, a pickle factory, and two potato warehouses among its early businesses. Its lakes include Fish Lake, Indian Lake, Big Pine Lake, Upper Little Pine Lake, Upper Big Pine Lake, and Rhine Lake. Finlayson's lakes include Fish Lake is part of the local map.