A Tribute to Finney's Pumpkinville

Finney's Pumpkinville was founded in October 1959 by Jack and Janet Finney along with their two small daughters Cheryl and Jill.

Their first Halloween display consisted of a large corn shock surrounded by huge orange pumpkins. The pumpkins only lasted a couple of days as they were stolen by "hall-o-weener's" one evening. Surprised to think that someone would actually take the jack-o-lanterns brought the thought to the Finneys "If someone would take pumpkins, maybe people would buy them." Hence, the next year the Finneys raised a few more pumpkins and Mrs. Finney being a little more artistic stuff some old clothes with straw and placed Halloween masks on pumpkins creating a wolf, Red Ridding Hood and a standing witch with her cauldron.

Year after year, Finney's Halloween display grew along with the acres of pumpkins, gourds, squash, Indian corn, and popcorn. Even now thousands of area schoolchildren arrive on scheduled bus tours during October to be greeted by the witch, Scarecrow, and cat in Pumpkinville.

--Text loosely taken from a Finney's brochure.

Finney's Pumpkinville has pumpkins for pies, and for jack-o-lanterns. You can also buy squash, gourds, Indian corn, apples, cider, popcorn, and potatoes. Everything is reasonably priced and pumpkins range from 25 cents to 20 dollars. Some of the attractions you can see are scarecrows, witches, a cornhouse, a spider's den, pumpkinheaded horses, a peddler lady, old wagons, Wizard of Oz characters, Humpty Dumpty, Dracula, and lots of others.