Photos of Yocona and Cornish

Yoknapatawpha's Indian mounds are found only in the northern part of the county, but mounds could be seen in several different parts of Lafayette County, including near the hamlets of Yocona and Cornish. Cornish no longer exists as a political entity, but in 1913 it was just east of Yocona, a small community about 10 miles southeast of Oxford that occupies the place on the map of the real county that Frenchman's Bend occupies on the maps Faulkner drew of his mythical county. "Yocona" is also the name of a 'river' - actually more like a stream - south of the hamlet. In Flags in the Dust, the first of Faulkner's fictions about the place that became Yoknapatawpha, he calls the county "Yocona."