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. This tavern only appears in Absalom! Sutpen and Ellen marry in 1838.
Quite a few lawyers and judges have law offices on Courthouse Square. In Absalom, Absalom! General Compson appears as both a cotton planter and a Confederate officer, but neither occupation explains why he needs the office in Jefferson where both Thomas and Judith Sutpen visit him on different occasions. However, the other occupation that most of the men in the General's caste practice is lawyer, so that seems the likely explanation here; it would explain why the office is near the courthouse (163), and why Judith seeks his help in the courtroom.
In Absalom! the office in which Judge Benbow keeps the records of the "Estate of Goodhue Coldfield" - a collection of betting tickets - is almost certainly located on the Square (172). It's probably also safe to say that in Faulkner's imagination it's interchangeable with the office of Judge Stevens, which as the office of the Judge's son Gavin is a major site in the later fictions (But Judge Stevens|Gavin Stevens Office has its own entry in this index.).
"A Rose for Emily" refers to "the battle of Jefferson" (119), and the town was occupied by Yankees who burned the courthouse and the Square. However, the several local engagements between Confederate and Union forces that occur in the Yoknapatawpha fictions - for example, the fight at the Sartoris place mentioned in Requiem for a Nun - are more accurately labeled 'skirmishes.' The only combat casualty connected with any of them is the (invented) death of "Lieutenant P.S. Backhouse" in the (invented) "Battle of Harrykin Creek" ("My Grandmother Millard," 697).
After moving to Jefferson with a single wagon-load of merchandise, Goodhue Coldfield opens what Absalom! 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).
Wash Jones lives (and dies) at the "abandoned and rotting fishing camp in the river bottom which Sutpen built, after the first woman - Ellen - entered his house" (99). A later description refers to "its collapsing roof and rotting porch" (148). In Faulkner's hunting stories - "The Old People," "The Bear," among others, this camp has been bought by Major de Spain, who renovates it for the use of the annual hunting parties he leads. As the leader of a very different kind of group, de Spain may see it for the first time in this novel (233).
Because Goodhue Coldfield is a "steward" in the Methodist Church in Jefferson (11), the wedding between his daughter Ellen and Sutpen takes place here. Judith wants her father's funeral to be held as "that same Methodist church in town where he had married her mother" (151), but her design is thwarted when the wagon carrying Sutpen's corpse to the church overturns.
At least as early as 1833, Yoknapatawpha contains "three churches" (24). Goodhue Coldfield is a steward in the Methodist church. Sutpen's family worships at a different church, just northwest of town; it is most likely Episcopalian, the preferred denomination for the planter class. The third church is not described or denominated, but given the religious demographics throughout the Yoknapatawpha fictions, it is pretty definitely a Baptist or a Presbyterian congregation that worships here.
From The Sound and the Fury and several other texts, readers know that the Compson house was, like Sutpen's mansion, built as the big house of an antebellum slave plantation. Only one detail about the house, however, appears in this novel: the "single globe stained and bug-fouled from the long summer and which even when clean gave off but little light" (71) - that is, the light bulb that hangs over the house's "front gallery" or porch (23). But at least three of the novel's nine chapters (2, 3, 4) are formally set here, as Mr.
