Compson Place in Requiem for a Nun (Location)

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2018-11-10 14:26
Text: 
Requiem for a Nun
Location Key: 
Compson Place
Display Label: 
Compson Place
Map Icon: 
Mansion
Authority : 
Faulkner map
Other Texts Location Appears In: 
"A Justice"
"A Name for the City"
"Appendix: Compson"
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek"
"Raid"
"Retreat"
"Skirmish at Sartoris"
"That Evening Sun"
Absalom, Absalom!
Go Down, Moses
The Mansion
The Sound and the Fury
The Unvanquished
X: 
1325
Y: 
894
Description: 

The first Compson in Yoknapatawpha swaps a "race-horse" to the chief of the Chickasaw for "a square mile of what was to be the most valuable land in the future town of Jefferson" (11).

Role: 
Site of Event
Status: 
Continuous
Types: 
Plantation

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