The museum was great – lots of people still live here where their families settled after the Civil War. In the late 19th century this was a very isolated place, and they were able to live here peacefully. Most famous person – Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice.
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I finally made it to Pin Point Museum, right here in Savannah.
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It was a clam and blue crab processing plant from the 1920’s until 1985.
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A local person did the murals in the 1960’s.
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I really liked that there were videos of real people sharing their memories – and all the people who work at the museum are descendants of the original people who settled here.
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They shoveled the clams/crabs off their boats into here.
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Then they fell thru the openings to this trough where the women prepared them for 12-14 hours a day, standing here.
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Some of the women who worked here
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Tools for harvesting the clams
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No stone on this sandy spit of land, so they used cedar for headstones for the grave
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Waste not/want not – they turned the crates into baby’s beds
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Where they boiled the crabs before picking them out
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Pin Point is right before you drive onto Skidaway Island. They came over from Ossabaw Island after the Civil War because they gave them land here.
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The bridge over to Skidaway Island across the marshes.
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It was paradise to them to have their own land.
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The church they founded – Sweetfield of Eden Baptist Church
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Sweetfield of Eden Baptist Church building
Looking for a unique experience in Savannah? Pin Point Heritage Museum, open Thursday, Friday and Saturday, was once the Varn and Sons Oyster Canning Factory and now offers guests the chance to experience the Gullah/Geechee way of life from religion, to foodways, to the fascinating history.