Pinson

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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Largest nearby schools

• South Side High School
  High · Jackson · 810 students · 13.7:1 ratio
• Rose Hill School
  Elementary · Jackson · 497 students · 17.8:1 ratio
• South Elementary
  Elementary · Pinson · 433 students · 17.3:1 ratio
• West-Bemis Middle School
  Middle · Jackson · 373 students · 17.8:1 ratio
• Parkview Prep Academy
  Other · Jackson