# Pin Point, Georgia > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Pin_Point,_Georgia > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Pin_Point,_Georgia.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin_Point%2C_Georgia > Source revision: 1353373017 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) "Pin Point" redirects here. For other uses, see [Pin Point (disambiguation)](/source/Pin_Point_(disambiguation)). **Pin Point** is an [unincorporated community](/source/Unincorporated_area) in [Chatham County](/source/Chatham_County,_Georgia), [Georgia](/source/Georgia_(U.S._state)), United States; it is located 11 miles (18 km) southeast of [Savannah](/source/Savannah,_Georgia) and is part of the Savannah [Metropolitan Statistical Area](/source/Savannah_metropolitan_area).[2] Pin Point is 1 mi (1.6 km) wide and 1.6 mi (2.6 km) long, and lies 13 feet above sea level. The town is best known for its longstanding [Gullah](/source/Gullah_language)-speaking community, and being the birthplace of U.S. Supreme Court justice [Clarence Thomas](/source/Clarence_Thomas).[3] A rural settlement founded by [freed people](/source/Freedmen's_town) after the [abolition of slavery in the United States](/source/Abolition_of_slavery_in_the_United_States) post-[Civil War](/source/American_Civil_War),[4] it was settled in the 1890s by people from nearby [Ossabaw](/source/Ossabaw_Island), Green, and [Skidaway](/source/Skidaway_Island) Islands.[5] In 1897, they founded Sweetfield of Eden Baptist Church.[6] In 1926, as part of a school-building initiative for African American children in the South—who at the time only had access to underfunded, segregated schools—a [Rosenwald school](/source/Rosenwald_school) was built in the Pin Point community.[6][7] The town lies on the edge of Shipyard Creek, a branch of the Moon River. The surrounding land has large oak trees and coastal marshes, as well as crab and oyster habitats.[6] The main employer in the community was crab and oyster canning from the 1920s through the 1980s.[5] Pin Point remains a small, predominantly African American community that has a well-established [Gullah](/source/Gullah) community. The Gullah people have been able to preserve many cultural connections to their origins in [West Africa](/source/West_Africa), where many of their ancestors were captured and then [enslaved in the United States](/source/Slavery_in_the_United_States). [Gullah](/source/Gullah_language), the only English-based, Afro-Indigenous creole language in the United States, is spoken in Pin Point.[3] It is unknown how many native speakers there are in the town, but along the Southeastern seaboard there are about 5,000 semi-speakers and 300 native speakers.[3] Supreme Court Justice [Clarence Thomas](/source/Clarence_Thomas) is a native speaker of Gullah (then called Geechee).[8] He has attributed his silence on the Supreme Court to his self-consciousness speaking in an all-white school as a teenager, where classmates made fun of him for not speaking "[standard English](/source/General_American_English)". Pin Point Heritage Museum, once the Varn and Sons Oyster and Crab Canning Factory, is devoted to the Gullah/Geechee culture and community.[5] ## Education [Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools](/source/Savannah-Chatham_County_Public_Schools) is the school district for all of Chatham County.[9] ## Notable People - [Clarence Thomas](/source/Clarence_Thomas), U.S. Supreme Court justice ## References 1. ["Pin Point, Georgia"](http://georgia.hometownlocator.com/ga/chatham/pin-point.cfm). *Hometown Locator*. Retrieved 2022-09-13. 1. Wolfram, Walt (2021). ["Gullah language"](https://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/10943). *Endangered Language Project* 1. Mayer, Jane & Abramson, Jill (6 November 1995). [*Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas*](https://books.google.com/books?id=uJfWAAAAMAAJ). Plume. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-452-27499-0. Retrieved 30 October 2011. 1. ["Pin Point Community"](http://www.chsgeorgia.org/PHM). Georgia Historical Society. 2014-06-16. Retrieved 2022-03-27. 1. Freeman, Michael (2018-05-05). ["The Story of Pin Point, Georgia"](https://www.freemansrag.com/historical-ruminations/the-story-of-pin-point-georgia). Retrieved 2022-09-14. 1. ["Fisk University Rosenwald Fund Card File Database"](http://rosenwald.fisk.edu/?module=search.details&set_v=aWQ9Njg1&school_historic_name=pin%20point&school_state=GA&button=Search&o=0). Retrieved 2022-09-14. 1. ["In Thomas's Own Words"](https://edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/GullahGeechee_ClarenceThomas.html). *Educational Cyper Playground*. New York Times. 2000-12-14. Retrieved 2022-03-27. 1. ["2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Chatham County, GA"](https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st13_ga/schooldistrict_maps/c13051_chatham/DC20SD_C13051.pdf). [U.S. Census Bureau](/source/U.S._Census_Bureau). Retrieved August 1, 2022. - [Text list](https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st13_ga/schooldistrict_maps/c13051_chatham/DC20SD_C13051_SD2MS.txt) ## External links - [Pin Point Community](http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/topics/historical_markers/county/chatham/pin-point-community) historical marker - [Pin Point Heritage Museum](http://www.chsgeorgia.org/PHM) official website.] - [Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words](https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1801699097?playlistId=tt10256238&ref_=tt_ov_vi) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Pin Point, Georgia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin_Point%2C_Georgia) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin_Point%2C_Georgia?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.