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of Pinson, Madison Co TN 
Pinson and Pinson Mounds is about eleven miles south of Jackson on Highway 45. The town began on the land of A.S. Rogers, prosperous and good farmland. A large store was owned by Rogers and C.H. Hearn. Rogers and E.R. Lancaster built a steam mill saw business. Lancaster opened the postoffice and by 1834 Mount Pinson was listed as one of the post offices of the Western district. The first school began in 1867 by Rev. John McCoy. The Baptist church soon followed with Rev. Levin Savage as the first minister. Then the Methodists with Rev. E.L. Fisher serving as the first pastor.
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad sat in Pinson, by 1876 200 people lived there. Thee were several stores, grocery, saloon, drug stor, blacksmith, hotel churches and a high school with 75 pupils
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