Unnamed Jefferson Ladies

There are several specific references to the "ladies" of a more recent Jefferson. A hundred years after the naming of Jefferson, two ladies clubs argue over whether "to change the name back to Habersham" (7). And it is only "a few irreconciliable old ladies" - in other words, ladies who have not reconciled themselves to the South's defeat in the Civil War - who refuse to forget the fact that during the war "a United States military force" burned the town Square (37).