Former Wyoming Governor Stanley K. Hathaway grew up on a farm here, and graduated from Huntley High School as class valedictorian in 1941.

[4] Around 1900, a fund established by the wealthy European philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch to promote farming in the United States, sponsored about 50 families by supporting them in establishing a new community around what is now Huntley, eight miles (13 km) south of the North Platte River, and five miles (8.0 km) west of the Nebraska border.

Most of the settlers did not originally own horses, and walked to Mitchell to purchase supplies—carrying flour, sugar, beans, rice and salt back to their homesteads in knapsacks.

With this financial support from de Hersch, the settlers were then able to purchase horses, wagons, machinery, a milk cow, and tools.

[5] In 1908, de Hirsch sponsored another 40 or 45 more families coming to Wyoming, who settled in an area a few miles northeast of present-day the Huntley, known as the community of Allen, and a school and a synagogue were established.

Public education for the community of Huntley is now provided by Goshen County School District #1 in Torrington.