While the story suggests this place, where Ab Snopes and his family live while sharecropping land near Harris' farm, is a squalid "paintless two-room house" (8), the story provides only one detail about it: when Mr. Harris goes there to complain to Snopes about his hog, the wire he gave Snopes some time earlier to strengthen the fences of the hog pen is "still rolled on the spool in his yard" (3-4). The Hamlet says that Harris (and presumably his tenant) live in Grenier County, which is on the southern side of the Yoknapatawpha River.
We know that Mr. Harris grows corn, because Snopes' hog gets into it, and that he had a barn, because Snopes burns it down. But that is about all the story says about this farm. We don't know, for example, if Harris is also Snopes' landlord or a small farmer. The Hamlet says that Harris's farm is in "over in Grenier County," which is why we chose to locate it in the southeastern corner of the map.
Ab Snopes, the father of Flem and Sarty, is a sharecropper who has repeatedly moved with his family from one "worn-out tenant farm" to another (The Town, 275). According to "Barn Burning," in his young life Sarty has lived at "a dozen" of them (8). At the beginning of "Barn Burning" Ab is a tenant on land owned by a man named Harris, whose property is in Grenier County just south of Yoknapatawpha.
Before moving to Frenchman's Bend, Ab Snopes and his family live on a succession of "worn-out tenant farms" in various places in and out of Yoknapatawpha (The Town, 275). This location is the farm that belongs to "a fellow named Harris over in Grenier County" (The Hamlet, 10), which in that novel and "Barn Burning" is the site of the barn that Ab burns before moving to Yoknapatawpha. Like Frenchman's Bend, Grenier County is named for the Old Frenchman; it is immediately south of Yoknapatawpha. We only hear about Mr. Harris' farm.
