Next to the Caledonia Chapel is the small "fenced square of earth" that is the local "graveyard" (154). The grave that is repeatedly violated in Intruder in the Dust is unmarked, but the others are indicated by "mottoless" and "shingle-thin slabs of cheap grey granite" standing "without symmetry or order" and "canted always slightly" (154). Next to Vinson Gowrie's grave, where no one rests in peace or for long, is his mother's grave, where the tombstone reads "AMANDA WORKITT, wife of N.B. Forrest Gowrie, 1878 birth, 1926 death" (99).
The Protestant church where the people of Beat Four worship is "a plank steepleless box," "weathered, unpainted, of wood and not much larger than a single room" (153, 98). To get there, as Lucas tells Chick, "you takes the first right hand up into the hills just beyond the Nine-Mile branch bridge" (67). The church and graveyard beside it are a mile from the nearest house (90), set "quite high" on a ridge (97).
In Intruder in the Dust, after the sheriff and his party find the two bodies hidden in the Nine-Mile Branch, they phone town and borrow a truck from a "deserted" house two miles away (176). There is no indication whose house this is or why it is (temporarily) deserted.
Next to the Caledonia Chapel in Intruder in the Dust is the small "fenced square of earth" that is the local "graveyard" (154). Vinson Gowrie's new grave - the plot that is repeatedly violated in Intruder in the Dust - is unmarked, but the others are indicated by "mottoless" and "shingle-thin slabs of cheap grey granite" standing "without symmetry or order" and "canted always slightly" (154). Next to Vinson's grave, where no one rests in peace or for long, is his mother's grave, where the tombstone reads "AMANDA WORKITT, wife of N.B.
"Caledonia" is the Latin name that the Romans gave northern Britain, and it became a synonym for Scotland. As several of the fictions note, many of the first white settlers in Mississippi of were of Scotch descent, and so it's not surprising to find the name 'Caledonia' in more than one place. There's a real Caledonia in Mississippi: a town in Lowndes County, north of Columbus and near the Alabama border; this town is mentioned in The Unvanquished.
The home of the local constable, where Lucas is taken for safe keeping after being found standing over Vinson Gowrie's body, is fifteen miles out of town on the "highway" (27). "Highway" is the term Faulkner uses for the country's half dozen major roads, all of which are unpaved at the time of the novel.
The sawmill on "old Sudley's" timberland, a mile away from the house, seems to be a temporary structure (217), set up by Vinson Gowrie and Jake Montgomery to harvest the timber they are selling. Like the crew of men who run it, the mill itself is "hired" (217). It is also described as "nearby" to Fraser's store (18).
Sitting at a crossroads four miles from the Edmunds place is the country store owned by "Squire Adam Fraser" (222). According to the narrative, it is a local gathering point: on Saturday afternoons "every tenant and renter and freeholder white or black in the neighborhood would at least pass and usually stop, quite often to buy something" (18). In the novel it is also the place where Lucas has several confrontations with the local white men.
The home of the local constable in Beat Four in Intruder in the Dust, where Lucas Beauchamp is taken for safe keeping after being found standing over Vinson Gowrie's body, is fifteen miles out of town on the "highway" (27). "Highway" is the potentially misleading term Faulkner uses for the country's half dozen major roads, all of which, as far as I can tell, remain unpaved in all the fictions.
In Intruder in the Dust the sawmill on "old Sudley's" timberland, a mile away from Sudley's house, seems to be a temporary structure (217), set up by Vinson Gowrie and Jake Montgomery to turn the trees they're harvesting into the timber they are selling. Like the crew of men who run it, the mill itself is "hired" (217). It is also described as "nearby" to Fraser's store (18).
