This location represents Negro residences mentioned by the narrator in his account of how the town of Jefferson has progressed over the years: "there were electric lights and running water in almost every house in town except the cabins of Negroes" (189).
This location represents Negro residences mentioned by the narrator of Requiem for a Nun in his account of how the town of Jefferson has progressed over the years: "there were electric lights and running water in almost every house in town except the cabins of Negroes" (189). This is one of several passages in the fictions that racializes the distinction between 'houses' and 'cabins.' (See also the entry in this index for Negro Hollow|Freedman Town.)
As part of the growth of the town of Jefferson, a number of "new subdivisions" with names like "Fairfield or Longwood or Halcyon Acres" are built on lots "which had once been the lawn or back yard or kitchen garden of the old residences" (196). The "new minute glass-walled houses set as neat and orderly and antiseptic as cribs in a nursery ward" are ranged around "the old obsolete columned houses" of an earlier day (196).
The Sartoris plantation "four miles to the north" of town is one of the most frequently visited locations in the Yoknapatawpha fictions, but in this novel Faulkner adds a new element to its history. As part of the battle of Jefferson during the Civil War, "a sudden battle centering around Colonel Sartoris's plantation house" erupts (182).
The coal house behind the county jail becomes a makeshift jail itself when Temple and Gavin visit Nancy. In a disconcerting reminder of the etiquette of Jim Crow segregation, the jailer shows deference to the couple's white race by moving the five "other nigger prisoners" to "the coal house" behind the jail (208). Ordinarily this shed is where the coal used for heating and cooking is stored.
In the decade after the Civil War, Redmond and Sartoris and Compson build "a railroad from Jefferson north into Tennessee" that connects with the track between Memphis and the Atlantic (187).
Behind the drugstore owned by a white man is the mulberry tree where the Negro known as "Mulberry" kept the "cache" of "illicit whiskey in pint and half-pint bottles" that he sold to men in the town (191).
This is the "back yard on the edge of town" where Jefferson's first "gasoline buggy" (i.e. automobile) is made part by part by an "ex blacksmith's-apprentice" (190).
This is the bank mentioned in Temple's story about the "Monday morning" in the past when Nancy confronted the cashier as he unlocked the building, demanding the money he owes her for sex (96).
When Union forces attack Jefferson during the Civil War, the Confederates fall back "to a stronger line on the river heights south of the town" (182). There does not seem to be any fighting there, though the Yankees occupy and burn the town itself.
