The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

Beside Mrs. Littlejohn's boarding house is a fenced-in lot with a barn on one side. Her boarders put their horses or mules there.

This is a boardinghouse in Frenchman's Bend run by Mrs. Littlejohn; Ratliff stays there when he spends the night in the hamlet.

Turning trees into lumber is one of the staples of the Yoknapatawpha economy, so there are a number of saw mills in the various texts. This struggling sawmill ("a saw mill where even the owner must be a financial genius to avoid bankruptcy," 33), must be in the Frenchman's Bend vicinity because it is owned by Will Varner.

Founded in 1819, Memphis, Tennessee, is the closest big city to Yoknapatawpha County, and it plays a role in many of Faulkner's novels and stories. Mrs. Rouncewell goes there to buy more flowers, I.O. Snopes buys his mules there, and Flem Snopes goes there to buy furniture. But Memphis is most frequently associated with the kinds of misbehavior that are unavailable in Yoknapatawpha.

This "spur track" from the railroad's "main line" allows "coal cars" to deliver fuel directly to the town power plant (26).

Located beyond the corn crib on Tom Tom's land, into these woods is where Turl and Tom Tom are seen running "like a centawyer" (27). While struggling they fall into a ditch that, according to Turl's vastly inflated account, is "forty foot deep" and "looked a solid mile across" (28). It is at any rate deep and wide enough for the fall to end their furious race.

Twice each Sunday Tom-Tom rides "into town to church" (21). This is probably the same Negro church where Dilsey (in The Sound and the Fury) and Sam Fathers (in "The Old People") also worship, though all the story explicitly says is that it is in Jefferson.

Tom Tom lives in the cabin about "two miles down the railroad track from the [power] plant" (16) on a "little piece of corn land" (21). Located on the edge of the woods, there is a corn crib near the corn patch from which Snopes watches Turl climb in "the back window" (25) and is where the stolen brass is hidden (29).

Some time after Manfred de Spain inherited the "livery stable" from his father, he "sold the horses," "tore out the stalls and cribs and tack-rooms and established the first garage and automobile agency in Jefferson" (14). Later, when he becomes President of the Sartoris Bank, he sells his "automobile agency" (125).