[1] The town was named for the prominent Pinckney family of South Carolina, from which many of its settlers came.

Charles Pinckney helped draft the US Constitution and served as governor of the state of South Carolina; other members of his family were also political leaders.

The settlement of Pinckneyville was mapped by James Wilkinson on his survey of what became the Natchez Trace following the 1801 Treaty of Fort Adams.

[5] Wilkinson County is in the district of Southwest Mississippi Community College.

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