Judge Benbow's office is probably on the Square. In it he keeps the "portfolio" full of betting tickets as his records of the "Estate of Goodhue Coldfield" (172).
Named for the man who built it at the very beginning of Jefferson's history, and located on the Square at the center of town, the Holston House is the town's main hotel for the entire Yoknapatawpha saga, from the 1830s through the 1950s. Sutpen stays there when he first arrives, and although the passages describing that stay don't provide any details, they do mention the hotel's "lounge" (25), barroom, dining room and "gallery" (or front porch, 23).
There were no Civil War battles fought in Yoknapatawpha - except in Requiem for a Nun, in which Faulkner adds a battle at the Sartoris place to the county's history - but like other southern towns during the war, Jefferson had an "improvised hospital" where the ladies of the community "cleaned and dressed" the wounded soldiers who were shipped there in the aftermath of battles (99). "Improvised" could mean a structure that was erected for this purpose, like a tent, or an empty building, a store or boarding house, that was used this way.
After moving to Jefferson with a single wagon-load of merchandise, Goodhue Coldfield opens what the novel calls "a little cross-roads store" in Jefferson (32). In Faulkner's fiction "cross-roads stores" are typically found in the country, but Coldfield's store is definitely in the town itself, next to the Holston House (32).
Jefferson already has "a blacksmith and livery stable" in 1833 (24). Along with the drovers' tavern, the livery stable "supplies the guests" who "did attend" Ellen and Sutpen's wedding (42) - which seems to refer to the uninvited men who jeer the wedding party from outside the church.
Many of the men in the mob outside Sutpen's wedding are "stock traders and hostlers and such" from "the drovers' tavern on the edge of town" (39). The novel does not specify which "edge," but the "stock traders" here are trading livestock and a "drover" is someone who moves animals or freight from one place to another, so we locate this tavern on the Memphis side of Jefferson. It only appears in Absalom!. Sutpen and Ellen marry in 1838.
The pursuers chasing the runaway architect in Absalom! have traveled over "thirteen miles from Sutpen's camp" (197) when they finally overtake him at "a cave under the river bank" (177). Yoknapatawpha's two "rivers" are small by the usual measures, and elsewhere might be called streams or creeks. But Faulkner's use of the term "river" for them follows cultural practice. When this event is recalled in Requiem for a Nun, the river has been replaced by a "swamp" (33).
The French architect throws the dogs off his trail by climbing into the trees at this point; it is here that, "sitting on a log" while the trackers try to recover the trail, that Sutpen begins telling General Compson about his design (193).
The pursuers chasing the runaway architect in Absalom! have traveled over "thirteen miles from Sutpen's camp" (197) when they finally overtake him at "a cave under the river bank" (177). Yoknapatawpha's two "rivers" are small by the usual measures, and elsewhere might be called streams or creeks. But Faulkner's use of the term "river" for them follows cultural practice. When this event is recalled in Requiem for a Nun, the river has been replaced by a "swamp" (33).
While being pursued in Absalom! - in an episode that evokes the flight and pursuit of fugitive slaves in other fictions - the French architect who tries to run away from Sutpen's plantation throws the dogs off his trail by climbing into the trees at this point; it is at this site, "sitting on a log" while the trackers try to recover the trail, that Sutpen begins telling General Compson about his design (193).
