Judge Stevens' law office is "just down the gallery from Doctor Peabody's" office (14). As is standard with the offices around Jefferson's Courthouse Square, this "gallery" runs outside along the second floor of a commercial building, and would be reached by an outside set of stairs. (The Judge's son Gavin practices law in the same office in a number of Yoknapatawpha fictions.)
Jefferson's hardware store appears in five other texts. In Faulkner's first two novels it is owned by Watts and then by Earl. In the short story "Fool about a Horse" and Faulkner's last three novels, which includes this one, it belongs to Isaac McCaslin, who in Go Down, Moses is identified instead as a carpenter. Here Boon shoots at Ludus in front of "Isaac McCaslin's hardware store" (14), missing him but wounding a Negro girl and "shattering" the store window. Ike lives "in a single room over his hardware store" (55).
This is the first 'gas station' in Yoknapatawpha. A few years before 1905, due to the advent of the automobile, the oil company added "a special tank of gasoline, with a pump," to its oil tanks "on the side track at the [train] depot" (48).
Between them The Town and The Reivers use this location to indicate how the history of Faulkner's fictional world reflects the real world outside it. According to The Reivers, a few years before 1905 the advent of the automobile led the oil company to add "a special tank of gasoline, with a pump," to its oil tanks "on the side track at the [train] depot" (48). This is the first 'gas station' in Yoknapatawpha.
The Jefferson train station appears in many of Faulkner's fictions, as the portal connecting Yoknapatawpha to the larger world. In this novel it is mentioned as the location through which "freight" for the town's stores arrives and from which Lucas' family leaves for Bay St. Louis (4).
Priest's carriages often serve as taxis for people attending "balls or minstrel or drama shows at the opera house" in Jefferson (8). "Opera house" was the way playhouses were often referred to in towns where the religious community frowned on play-acting. "Opera" sounded culturally more respectable than plays, though actual operas were seldom staged in them. (This theater is still there in The Sound and the Fury, but no longer being used; it is referred to as "the old opera house.")
The drivers who work for the Priest's livery stable regularly take "drummers" - i.e. traveling salesman - from the train station to "the hotel" (8). The hotel referred to is is almost certainly the "Holston House" (25) which the novel mentions later, the oldest and finest hotel in Jefferson. It boasts "carpets and brass cuspidors and leather chairs and linen table cloths" (25).
This tent "in the river jungle beyond Frenchman's Bend" is the squalid home of one of the two remaining descendants of Louis Grenier, perhaps the first white settler of Yoknapatawpha and the "Frenchman" from whom the "Bend" as a district gets its name (7). The land on which Lonnie Grinnup squats had "once been a part of the Grenier plantation" (7). (In Intruder in the Dust, Lonnie lives in a ramshackle shed on more or less the same site.)
Apparently abandoned since the Civil War, the Grenier plantation appears as 'the old Frenchman Place' in many Yoknapatawpha fictions. In this novel it is identified with the actual name of that man, Louis Grenier. He was a Huguenot whose large plantation alongside the Yoknapatawpha River was one of the earliest white settlements in the county.
