Cotton House where Joe Christmas Rests (Location Key)

A "cottonhouse" or "cotton house" - it is spelled both ways in Light in August (328, 329) - is a small outbuilding in or beside a field, where picked cotton can be stored before it's taken to the gin It is typically empty except during the fall cotton harvest. Joe Christmas might have spent a night inside this one during his flight; in any case it is "right by" the cotton house that he exchanges shoes a "negro woman" (329).