In Popular Culture
- A novel by R. S. Pierpoint entitled After the Mardi Gras tells the tale of a Portuguese sailor who wanders to the Indian mounds at Pinson hundreds of years ago, marries the chief's granddaughter and founds a line of Melungeons.
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