Burden Place in The Mansion (Location)

In Light in August the antebellum plantation that the Burden family buys when they arrive in Yoknapatawpha after the Civil War is a major site, a dark house where Joanna is born, lives and dies violently. The Town it makes a cameo appearance when others refer to "Miss Joanna Burden's mailbox one mile west of the courthouse" as part of an attempt to convince Tug Nightingale that the earth is round (206).