Coldfield's Store in Absalom, Absalom! (Location)

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). So by "cross-roads store" the novel seems to mean stocked with the kind of merchandise that country people would buy, from farm equipment to fabric for homemade clothes - and not with material out of which to make a trousseau appropriate for Judith Sutpen, the daughter of the county's richest planter (61).