The city of New Orleans is mentioned several times in Intruder in the Dust. While Lucas is in jail, Carothers Edmonds is in a hospital there, "being operated on for gallstones" (30). It is also one of the places where the young men who hang around Jefferson's barbershop and pool hall during the week go "on weekends," to spend their money "in Memphis or New Orleans brothels" (42). And Crawford Gowrie reportedly "ran liquor" from New Orleans to Memphis after getting out of prison (161).
Cicero is a suburb of Chicago that became famous "in the middle [nineteen] twenties" (35) as the base from which Al Capone operated his crime syndicate.
Much of the white population of Yoknapatawpha is of Scottish descent, from the upper class families like the Compsons and the Mallisons to the folk who live in the "hill-country of McCallum and Gowrie and Frazier and Muir" and who brought Scottish words and customs with them "from Culloden to Carolina, then from Carolina to Yoknapatawpha" (The Town, 332). So the adjective "Scotch" appears in a great many of the fictions. But three in particular mention Scotland.
In Intruder in the Dust Harrisburg is a fictional town or city in Mississippi, sixty miles from Jefferson and clearly larger, where the District Attorney and the district Judge who try criminal cases in Yoknapatawpha are headquartered.
Gettysburg is the site of the largest battle ever fought on American soil, between Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac, commanded at that time by George Meade. During its three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863, almost fifty thousand men were killed, wounded or captured. For many commentators, the Union victory there marked the turning point in the Civil War.
Glasgow and Hollymount are two fictional towns located east of Yoknapatawpha in the fictional Crossman County in Intruder in the Dust. Lucas speculates that Crawford Gowrie is selling the stolen lumber to Jake Montgomery in one or the other of them (61). Montgomery's father has a farm "over beyond Glasgow" (113). Hollymount is mentioned again in connection with the Sheriff's plan to catch Crawford (216). Holly Springs is a real town northeast of Oxford, Mississippi; it is mentioned in Sanctuary.
Heidelberg University, in the German city of the same name, had been famed as an educational institution for over five hundred years by the time Faulkner sent Gavin Stevens there to get his graduate degree.
Heidelberg University, in the German city of the same name, had been famed as an educational institution for over five hundred years by the time Faulkner sent Gavin Stevens there to get a doctoral degree in six of the later Yoknapatawpha fictions, beginning with Intruder in the Dust in 1948. In his earlier appearances as a character Gavin is repeatedly introduced as a Harvard man and a graduate of the University of Mississippi law school. It's not clear why Faulkner chose in the years after World War II to add a PhD from a German university to Gavin's resume.
Before becoming Vinson's partner in the timber business, Montgomery owned "a place he called a restaurant just across the Tennessee line" from Mississippi (112). According to the Sheriff, what it served didn't need to be "chewed" or cooked, but came from "a hole under the floor big enough to hide a case of whiskey in" (112-13). After a man "got killed in it one night two-three years ago," the Tennessee police closed it down (113).
