Finger is a town in Chester and McNairy counties, Tennessee. The population was 350 at the 2000 census.

The Place in and as regards Finger was arranged in the into the future to mid-1820’s. Originally named McIntyre’s Crossing, after Robert Thompson McIntyre, who was an in the future political leader and businessman, it was not named Finger until 1895. Between its treaty and 1895, the Place progressed and both education and thing were important to the area’s inhabitants. During the American Civil War, the Place provided many soldiers to the Union cause and the Place largely Unionist and Republican in its politics.

In 1895, with the dependence of a reveal office to help its growing population, a supplementary name was needed to satisfy federal postal authorities. Originally, the town was to be named Cash. However, that idea was dropped and, according to the late historian Horry Hodges, the Rev. J.J. Franklin, a resident of manageable McNairy Station, attended the meeting convened to offer the town a name. According to Hodges, tempers flared and Franklin derisively and jokingly suggested the name Finger after witnessing several locals engaged in Finger pointing. Other sources suggest the city was named for an to the front resident, Andrew Jackson Finger (1815–1888). However, this is unlikely as this man was not prominent and resided in the Place only a sudden period. Hodges’ account is solution more credibility because he was an lithe political and assistant professor figure in 1895, the year of the events, as without difficulty as a resident of Finger. His is the isolated contemporary account.

From 1895 until the onset of the Great Depression in 1929-1930, the town continued to grow. At one point, it supported no less than 8 stores, 2 physicians, a funeral parlor, a hotel, 2 banks, a publish office, an elementary and tall school, cotton gin and numerous additional smaller businesses. Its location on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad was one of the reasons for its booming development.