Pinopolis is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States.

[4] Founded circa 1845, the community was established at a relatively high elevation in the "low country" of South Carolina, and it gave an escape from mosquitoes and uncomfortable heat.

During the pre-Civil War period it developed in this way and maintained as a place of polish and refinement.

In the post-Civil War period and during the change of the South, it became the location of the first elementary school for black students.

Because of its high elevation, Pinopolis was spared from the flooding, and now exists as a peninsula on the lake.