Virginia appears in the novel in several different ways. Pettigrew is from Virginia - or as he puts it, "old Ferginny" (23) - which explains (in a very involved, some might say typically Faulknerian way) how Jefferson got its name. Because Richmond was the capitol of the Confederacy, the regiment formed in Jefferson was sworn in by a "Richmond mustering officer" (181). A number of major Civil War battles were fought in the state: First Manassas (36), Second Manassas (181), The Wilderness (194).
Pettigrew is from Virginia - or as he puts it, "old Ferginny" (214) - which explains (in a very involved, some might say typically Faulknerian way) how Jefferson got its name.
Doctor Peabody says, just before they give the settlement a name, that "We already got a church"; according to him, "that's Whitfield's cabin" (213-14). The basis for his claim is probably that Whitfield (who does not otherwise appear in the story) holds some kind of regular religious service inside his cabin.
Doctor Peabody says, just before they give the settlement a name, that "We already got a church"; according to him, "that's Whitfield's cabin" (23). The basis for his claim is probably that Whitfield (who does not otherwise appear in the story) regularly holds some kind of religious service inside his cabin.
After the jail break, the settlers look for the missing padlock "among the bordering thickets of their punily-clawed foothold" in the wilderness (208).
Washington appears in the story as the seat of the federal government, which reaches as far as the frontier settlement through the Indian agency around which the settlers have grouped their cabins, the irregular bi-weekly delivery of mail, and the potential "violations of Acts of Congress" involving "government property" that the mail carrier warns them not to commit (19).
Washington appears in the story as the seat of the federal government, which reaches as far as the frontier settlement through the Indian agency around which the settlers have grouped their cabins, the irregular bi-weekly delivery of mail, and the potential "violations of Acts of Congress" involving "government property" that the mail carrier warns them not to commit (212).
The cotton plantation created in the southeastern part of the county by Louis Grenier (better known in Yoknapatawpha lore as 'the Old Frenchman') is the county's "first big land patent" (202). In the story it is described as so "vast" that half of it is "not even in Yoknapatawpha County" (202).
The cotton plantation created in the southeastern part of the county by Louis Grenier (better known in Yoknapatawpha lore as 'the Old Frenchman') is the county's "first big land patent" (6). It is described as so "vast" that half of it is "not even in Yoknapatawpha County" (8), and "Frenchman's Bend" is its name: "Frenchman's Bend (his plantation: his manor, his kitchens and stables and kennels and slave quarters and gardens and promenades and fields" - though as the narrator goes on to say, "a hundred years later [it] will have vanished" (27). This isn't quite true, however.
