McCarron Farm in The Hamlet (Location)

Hoake McCarron grows up and lives on the farm which his mother inherited from her father, who was named Hoake. It is large enough to employ both "negro field hands" (149), which suggests cotton was raised there, and "drovers," men who take care the "cattle" that are raised or prepared for market there (150). All we know about its location is that it is "twelve miles from the village" of Frenchman's Bend (149).

McCarrons' Farm

In The Hamlet Hoake McCarron grows up and lives on the farm which his mother inherited from her father, who was named Hoake. It is large enough to employ both "negro field hands" (149), which suggests cotton was raised there, and "drovers," men who take care the "cattle" that are raised or prepared for market there (150). All we know about its location is that it is "twelve miles from the village" of Frenchman's Bend (149).

Jefferson Boarding House in The Hamlet (Location)

The Varners stay in a boarding house in Jefferson for four days during the county fair.

Snopes Hotel|Jefferson Hotel

This building - "a big more-or-less unpainted square building just off the Square" (41) - is transformed twice in the course of The Town. It begins as a boarding house "where itinerant cattle drovers and horse- and mule-traders stopped and where were incarcerated, boarded and fed, juries and important witnesses during court term" (41). When I.O.

Jefferson County Fair in The Hamlet (Location)

Yoknapatawpha's "annual County Fair" is held in Jefferson; its attractions include exhibitions of livestock, farm tools and preserved fruits, carnival games like a shooting gallery and a pitch game, and rides like a "merry-go-round" (144).

Jefferson County Fair

The Hamlet includes Yoknapatawpha's "annual County Fair," which is held in Jefferson; its attractions include exhibitions of livestock, farm tools and preserved fruits, carnival games like a shooting gallery and a pitch game, and rides like a "merry-go-round" (144).

Places around Frenchman's Bend in The Hamlet (Location)

The Hamlet refers to a number of various events that occur in the general Frenchman's Bend area, which we gather into this single entry.

Places around Frenchman's Bend

The Hamlet refers to a number of various events that occur in the general Frenchman's Bend area, which we gather into this single entry.

Train Station where Man is Shot in The Hamlet (Location)

This is the "bleak station platform" where in The Hamlet Labove sees a "shouting white man" shoot and kill a "negro" during one of his train trips with the University football team (138). There is no clear indication as to where, in or out of Mississippi, this might have happened.

Railroad Station where Man is Shot

Labove watches a man get shot on a train station during one of his trips with the university football team. There is no clear indication where this is.

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