Editing Pitts, Georgia (section)

== History ==
The community which later became Pitts began as a settlement in the area of the home of Lyston Clyde Peebles Sr., two miles east of the Alapaha River. Brock Owens and Ashley J. Pitts operated the first store there in the mid-1880s. Pitts was called Kings' Crossing at the time. When application was made for a post office, the Postmaster General preferred a shorter name. J.A. King suggested the name Pitts, in honor of his son-in-law, Ashley J. Pitts. The name was accepted, and the post office was established on 1 November 1888 with Pitts as postmaster.

The [[Georgia General Assembly]] incorporated Pitts as a town in 1905.<ref>{{cite book|title=Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eHy7q4S7wL8C&pg=PA1045|year=1905|publisher=Clark & Hines, State Printers|page=1045}}</ref>

On April 20, 1921, various people throughout southwest and south-central Georgia observed a meteor trail across the sky which culminated in an explosion and impact at a minimum of four spots slightly north of Pitts.  Three fragments of the meteorite were recovered, one falling within a few feet of a child playing outside. It was classified as an iron meteorite.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=Georgia&sfor=places&ants=&falls=&valids=&stype=contains&lrec=50&map=ge&browse=&country=All&srt=name&categ=All&mblist=All&rect=&phot=&snew=0&pnt=Normal%20table&code=18837|title=Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Pitts}}</ref>  The largest recovered fragment weighed 3.76 kilograms and is currently housed in the Smithsonian Institution Collection.  The other fragments remain in private collections. Local accounts and fragments were collected and documented in the Geological Survey of Georgia Bulletin, Issue 29.<ref>{{cite book|title=Bulletin - Geological Survey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zBIMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA141|year=1922|publisher=Geological Survey.|page=141}}</ref>