Road East of Jefferson (Location Key)

It's likely that characters in several fictions travel this road, to get to Whiteleaf or beyond Yoknapatawpha to Alabama. But only one noteworthy event occurs on the road. As the surrey carrying Mink Snopes and his captors approaches town in The Hamlet, it leaves the "flatlands" and enters another region of "hills" and "pines" (283). On one of the trees is a kind of billboard, "a board . . . bearing a merchant's name above the legend 'Jefferson 4 mi'" (284). It is at this point that Mink desperately tries to kill himself.