Pinson, Tennessee
Unincorporated community in Madison County · Not an incorporated municipality
About Pinson
Pinson is an unincorporated community in Madison County, Tennessee. It lies along U.S. Route 45 between Jackson and Henderson, just north of the Chester County line, and State Route 197 also passes through the community. It is included in the Jackson, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Pinson is the site of the Pinson Mounds, the largest Middle Woodland period Indian mound group in the United States, and the Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park dedicated to their study.
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How Pinson is governed
Pinson appears to be an unincorporated community or a census-designated place, so it may have no city government of its own — services usually come from Madison County and its elected officials. The chart below is a generic template; readers can correct it if Pinson does have local officials.
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Residents of Pinson
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History
In 1820, a group of five surveyors including Joel Pinson and Memucan Hunt Howard discovered a Middle Woodland period platform mound in the Pinson area while surveying land grants for Colonel Thomas Henderson. The surveyors dubbed the mound Mount Pinson after Joel, and a post office was established there under that name in 1827. In 1866, the post office was renamed "Pinson" with the foundation of the town of Pinson near the site of the mounds on land originally belonging to A. S. Rogers.
Pinson High School was established in the area in 1873, and by 1875 had a student body of nearly 150 scholars. Country music singer Eddy Arnold attended the school and performed locally during his early years. The institution endured until it was consolidated into South Side High School with several other area schools in 1956.
A destructive tornado struck Pinson on March 11, 1923, destroying 50 homes and killing at least 18 people. It has since been estimated that the tornado was an F5 on the Fujita scale based on damage reports.
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