The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

In The Town the Ford "agency," or dealership, where Matt Levitt works as "a mechanic in the agency garage" may be the same as Jefferson's first car agency, the one opened by Manfred de Spain in the converted livery stable (192). But Ford was the most popular brand of automobile sold in the U.S. through the 1920s, so it's just as likely that by this time Jefferson more than one dealership.

In The Town Wilbur Provine's house has a "path worn smooth as a ribbon and six inches deep from his back door to the spring where he had walked it twice a day for two years until they caught him" for making moonshine (177). The spring and creek bottom a mile and a half away from the house where his wife has to go to fetch water every day is presumably not the same spring.

In The Town the supposedly-lost Cedric Nunnery is playing in this culvert, "about a half mile away" and "up the track" from the depot, when the explosion occurs that kills Eck Snopes, who is searching for Cedric at the time (116).

In The Town, Mrs. Nunnery lives with her son Cedric in "a little house just up the hill from the depot" (115).

The "little cubbyhole of an office in an alley" off the Square where the town's night marshal is supposed to be headquartered is first mentioned in Intruder in the Dust (207). That novel adds that although the office has "a stove and a telephone," the marshal won't stay there, spending his time instead in "the cafe" nearby that "stays open all night" (207, 206) - which has led the town to connect the marshal's office telephone to "a big burglar alarm bell on the outside wall," to make sure someone in the cafe will hear it ringing and alert the marshal (207).

Bought for "old man Snopes," whom some believe is Flem's father and others his uncle, this is "a little house about a mile from town where he lived with an old maid daughter and the twin sons named Vardaman and Bilbo that belonged to I.O. Snopes's other wife" (The Town, 136). Because this Snopes refuses to get any closer to Jefferson than this spot, "they bought" this house for him (136); "they" must be other Snopeses, but which ones is not made clear. The "house had a little piece of ground with it, that old man Snopes made into a truck garden and water-melon patch" (137).

The school system in Jefferson remains segregated throughout the fictions, so white and black students never learn together under one roof. But how many white public schools there are in town is hard to determine. It seems clear in some fictions that Faulkner imagines that Jefferson has only one building for white students in all grades from 1st to 12th - though there's never any suggestion of a one-room schoolhouse in the town, like the one in the much smaller Frenchman's Bend.

The Rouncewell flower shop figures briefly in The Town during the rivalry between Gavin Stevens and Manfred de Spain at the time of the Cotillion Ball. There are several Rouncewell businesses mentioned in earlier fictions: a boarding house and a "store" that Samuel Worsham Beauchamp breaks into that cannot be a florist's. The Town says that Mrs. Rouncewell owns this shop because "she loves funerals" (73), but how Faulkner imagined this shop in relation to those other Rouncewell enterprises isn't clear.

In 3 late fictions Faulkner creates a new plantation in Yoknapatawpha that is either three or six miles from Jefferson, depending on the novel. The plantation, described in The Mansion as one of Yoknapatawpha's "biggest" (217), originally belongs to the Backus family. It seems safe to assume it was built before the Civil War, but none of the three texts look back that far into the past.

Four of the 5 references to Cuba in the fictions mention it in the context of the Spanish-American War at the end of the 19th century. This was the first foreign war the U.S. fought after the Civil War, and at the time was talked about as the proof that former enemies from 'the North' and 'the South' could fight side by side under the same American flag.