City Directories and History: On the bluff road below Adams Pond, about twenty miles south of Columbia, a section of Richland County became known as the Pin Cushion (Pincushion Community). This title was derived by folk etymology from the family name Pinkussohn. The land was owned for many year by the Pinkussohn family, who operated a fancy tobacco store on the 1300 block of Main Street, Columbia, SC. After years passed and the family no longer resided in the county, rural residents garbled Pinkussohn to Pin Cushion; and it is by this designation that it passed today. Richard Maher and contributors of Havilah Babcock and Pierre F. LaBode – Names in S.C. Winter – 1954.
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