Fink

Fink's name has outlasted its post office. The community's own history page, citing the Handbook of Texas, says the Texas Legislature set aside the fourth Friday in June as Fink Day in 1979. Sources disagree on the namesake. The marker says Fiedrick Finke arrived from Germany in 1884 and that the post office closed in 1908; a Texas Escapes sketch puts the Finke family here before the Civil War, with a post office from 1897 to 1903. That sketch calls Fink a dispersed rural community.

What the plaque says

Fink A community grew up near Fort Johnson on the Texas Military Road (also known as the Shawnee Trail) in the 1840s. Earlier called Georgetown and Reevesville, the settlement became known as Fink when a post office (500 feet north) was established in 1897 and named for Fiedrick Finke (1858-1920), a German immigrant who had come to Grayson County in 1884. The post office was discontinued in 1908. Never incorporated, Fink was eventually included within the boundaries of Pottsboro. In the 1960s local residents began annual Fink celebrations. (1988)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Eisenhower State Park — 4.5 mi
  A bluff-top park on Lake Texoma opened in 1958 on land leased from the Corps of Engineers, in the Red River country of Fort Johnson, Colbert's Ferry and the Butterfield stages.
• Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge — 6.0 mi
  A 1946 refuge on the Big Mineral Arm of Lake Texoma, laid over land bought for Denison Dam and the site of the vanished railroad town of Hagerman, now a winter stop for geese.
• Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site — 9.0 mi
  The small frame house beside the Katy tracks in Denison where Dwight Eisenhower was born in 1890, bought by townspeople in 1946 and given to Texas in 1958.
• Choctaw Cultural Center — 19 mi
  The Choctaw Nation's history told from the Chahta side at Calera, with galleries from Nanih Waiya to the Trail of Tears and the reservation today, a living village and daily stickball.

More markers nearby

• Site of Fort Johnson — 1.3 mi
• Preston Road/Shawnee Trail — 2.8 mi
• Site of the Trading Post of Holland Coffee — 6.2 mi
• Sophia Porter — 6.2 mi