In The Town, "Caledonia" is a place in Yoknapatawpha where Matt Levitt gets into a fight with Anse McCallum (206). (There is a real Caledonia in Mississippi, a town in Lowndes County, north of Columbus and near the Alabama border; that town is mentioned in The Unvanquished.) "Caledonia" is the Latin name that the Romans gave northern Britain, and it became a synonym for Scotland. As several of the fictions note, many of the first white settlers in Mississippi were of Scotch descent, and so it's not surprising to find more than one 'Caledonia' place name.
Sheriff Hub Hampton's "office deputy," Miss Elma, is identified as the "widow of the sheriff Mr Hampton had succeeded last time" (183). This previous sheriff is not otherwise described.
While the county courthouse at the center of Jefferson appears much more frequently in Faulkner's fictions, federal criminal cases - including the making and selling of alcohol or, in the case of Montgomery Ward Snopes, sending pornography through the mail - are tried in the town's federal courthouse.
