By the early twentieth century, Pin Point residents were actively engaged in the fishing industry, harvesting and processing crab, oysters, and shrimp from the local waters. In 1926, Algernon S. Varn, who ran the Varn and Platt Company on Bay Street, leased a lot in Pin Point for a crab-processing house and the following year built a sophisticated crab and oyster factory that became a center for the local economy. The design divided labor among men and women. Streamlining the shucking and packing processes, the concrete-block crab house was partitioned between picking and canning, with sloped fiberglass tables designed to drain off water and waste. Adjacent to the picking room was a cooling room where the oysters were boiled overnight before canning. The oyster house built alongside the original crab house is unique in the region, with innovative gravity-fed bins where oysters were dumped from the outside by the male fisherman, to be shucked and processed on the inside by women, standing in puddles of water leaked from the shells through a long and grueling workday. By 1966 the Varn Seafood Company was relatively prosperous, supplying seafood up and down the East Coast, but the rise of commercial fleets and factories along with a declining harvest in the 1970s led the owners to cease operations in 1985. In recent years, under the patronage of Pin Point-native Clarence Thomas, the oyster factory has been meticulously restored and is now the Pin Point Heritage Museum, which opened in 2012. Nearby Pin Point Hall, originally built in 1925 by Charlie Devoe, Samuel Wiggins, Robert Edgfield, and David McIver, served as a local grocery “confectionery” providing basic goods. The store was completely rebuilt with concrete block in 1961 and declined during the 1970s, but was subsequently remodeled to regain its importance to the community.