Jefferson Railroad Station in "Two Soldiers" (Location)

Display Label: 
Jefferson Bus Depot
Map Icon: 
Office/store
Authority : 
Context (text, as interpreted)
X: 
1156
Y: 
800
Description: 

The bus station – or as he calls it, the "dee-po" - where the narrator is put on a bus to Memphis is "down another street" from Courthouse Square; it's "a regular bus dee-po like a railroad dee-po," containing "a ticket counter and a feller behind it" (89). Historically, the Oxford train station was converted into a bus depot in 1937, when passenger rail service was discontinued. While Faulkner never felt bound by historical or geographical fact as he re-created Yoknapatawpha in the fictions, the location that the narrator himself provides - "down" a street from the Courthouse - and even the word 'depot' make it likely as not that Faulkner's bus station is also what used to be the railroad dee-po.

Role: 
Site of Event
Status: 
Continuous
Types: 
Bus Station

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