Photos of Taylor

Although a good many places in Yoknapatawpha are recognizably based on locations in Lafayette, Taylor, a hamlet about 9 miles southwest of Oxford, is the only real Lafayette location - other than Oxford - that wears its real name in the fictions. It's the stop on the railroad where Temple Drake leaves the train to begin her ordeal in Sanctuary. The second and third photos by Martin J. Dain below aren't specifically identified with Taylor, but in his explanatory notes to the photographs in Faulkner's County Dain says that "Varner's grocery" is "about 15 miles southwest of Oxford, at the fork of two dirt roads"; in the notes to his later collection of photographs, Faulkner's World, Dain remarks that the "Jones-Miller place," an old plantation house occupied in 1962 by blacks, is "southwest of Oxford"; he doesn't say how far to the southwest, but that direction is our justification for including these 3 photographs in the same gallery. (The Varners, of course, are one of the well-known families in the Yoknapatawpha saga, but they and their country store are found in Frenchman's Bend, about 20 miles southeast of Jefferson.