Pin Point Community

Pin Point Community is a Georgia historical marker in Chatham County, dedicated 2011.

At 9630 Lehigh Avenue in Savannah.

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Pin Point was settled in 1896 by former slaves from Ossabaw, Green, and Skidaway Islands. Sweetfield of Eden Baptist Church, founded in Pin Point in 1897, was a successor to Ossabaw's Hinder Me Not Church and also served as the community's school until a Rosenwald School opened in 1926. Construction of the Pin Point Hall followed, and it remains a focal point of the community. Pin Point was the site of several coastal industries including: shrimping, crabbing, and oyster harvesting operations. Among these seafood factories were Ben Bond and John Anderson Seafood, which opened in 1900, and A.S. Varn and Sons, which operated from 1926 to 1985. Pin Point is the birthplace of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1863 · Sketch of sea coast of South Carolina and Georgia from Bull's Bay to Ossabaw Sound (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1874 · Plache VII. Sea Islands. (Carolina du Sud). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Gen. map IX. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1944 · Ossabaw Island, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1945 · Ossabaw Island, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Gen. map IX, 1895, covering the location of Pin Point Community, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Gen. map IX, 1895, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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