Pin Point, Georgia

Pin Point is an unincorporated community in Chatham County, Georgia, United States; it is located 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Savannah. Pin Point is part of the Savannah Metropolitan Statistical Area.[1]

Pin Point, Georgia
Map showing the location of Pin Point, Georgia
Coordinates: 31°57′11″N 81°05′33″W
CountryUnited States
StateGeorgia
CountyChatham County

The town is best known as the birthplace of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on June 23, 1948.[2]

A rural settlement founded by freed slaves after the American Civil War,[3] Pin Point is 1 mi (1.6 km) wide and 1.6 mi (2.6 km) long.

Pin Point is a small, predominantly African American community that has a well-established group of Gullah speakers.

Pin Point Heritage Museum was once the Varn and Sons Oyster Canning Factory and offers guests the chance to experience the Gullah/Geechee way of life from religion, to foodways, to the fascinating history.

Notable residents

Clarence Thomas, an American judge, lawyer, and government official who currently serves as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Notes
  1. Pin Point, Georgia
  2. Merida, Kevin; Fletcher, Michael A. (22 April 2007). "Justice Thomas's Life A Tangle of Poverty, Privilege and Race". Washington Post. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  3. Mayer, Jane; Abramson, Jill (6 November 1995). Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas. Plume. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-452-27499-0. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
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