Road East of Jefferson in The Hamlet (Location)

As they approach town in The Hamlet, the surrey carrying Mink Snopes and the lawmen 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.