Finksburg is named after Adam Fink, who built the first house and was owner of a local tavern and toll road in the early 19th century.
Modern day
The Finksburg community is protected by the Gamber and Reese Community Volunteer Fire Stations, as well as Sykesville-Freedom District Fire Department.
The area is served by Sandymount Elementary, Shiloh Middle, and Westminster High Schools. Gerstell Academy, an independent K-12 school is also located in Finksburg. Across the street sits the 13,805 sq. ft. Finksburg Branch of the Carroll County Public Library which opened in 2009 and "was the first green building in Carroll County" [5]
Finksburg is host to the Roaring Run Community Park, a small sports complex with four baseball diamonds, as well as Sandymount Park which features walking paths, tennis courts, a basketball court, playground, three baseball diamonds, and six grass athletic fields.
The Greater Baltimore Hindu-Jain Temple and the Evergreen Memorial Gardens cemetery are located in Finksburg.
Car 54, Where Are You? and Munsters actor Fred Gwynne is interred at the Sandy Mount United Methodist Church's cemetery in an unmarked grave.[citation needed] Finksburg was referenced in Season 5, Episode 9 of the television comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Yearly, the Baltimore Ravens training camp hosts practice in Owings Mills, several miles away. Former Ravens players Torrey Smith and Haloti Ngata lived locally.
1838 - Finksburg becomes a part of the newly created Carroll County Maryland following an act of the 1837 Maryland Legislature from portions of Baltimore County and Frederick County. The County is named after the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence who died in 1836 Charles Carroll of Carollton.
1849 – Edward Remington and the Patapsco Mining Company opened cobalt mines near Finksburg
1856 – A. L. Hoover was postmaster of Finksburg, earning $63.60 for the year
1858 – Cobalt mining was unprofitable and mines were closed for financial reasons
1866 – Baseball was the most popular sport, the "Star" of Finksburg was the local club (team)
1873 – The Alpha Farmers' Club of Carroll County was established
1881 – The Finksburg Literary Society organized lecturers for Friday night meetings at the Mechanics' Hall. Admission was 5 cents.
1888 – L. A. J. Lamotte operated a business for canning corn
1913 - The Western Maryland Railroad changes the name of their Finksburg station to "Asbestos" in respect for the nearby Baltimore Roofing and Asbestos Company, to the consternation of local residents.[6] This led to the area by the station, a half mile from town, being called Asbestos, Maryland at least into the 1930s, over a decade after the asbestos plant closed. (This area is now called "Cedarhurst".)[7]
1935 – Sandymount Elementary School began as a three-room stone building consolidating the smaller one room schools of Reese, Bethel, and Sandymount Finksburg, Emory School house Patapsco School house and East View School house Deer Park
2002 – Independent K-12 school Gerstell Academy opens
Timeline information generally taken from:
Warner, Nancy, Ralph Levering and Margaret Taylor Woltz. Carroll County Maryland: A History 1837–1976. Carroll County Bicentennial Committee, 1976.
