The Civil War story Drusilla tells Bayard and Ringo begins with a group of Confederate soldiers "slipping into the roundhouse" at a railroad center in Atlanta in order to liberate a locomotive from the Yankees. The original name of Atlanta was 'Terminus,' because it was the end of the railway that was being built in the 1830s to link coastal Georgia to the U.S. interior. By the time of the Civil War it was called Atlanta, and was one of the South's great railroad centers.
These are the people who live "in houses [and] cabins ten and fifteen miles away" from Lonnie Grinnup's shack (71). Lonnie and Joe periodically visit them, sometimes "for weeks"; the story simply refers to them as "his hosts" (71). They mostly seem to be farmers, since Lonnie and Joe sometimes sleep in "the hay of lofts," but some of them at least are prosperous enough to have "company rooms" with "beds" to sleep in (71).
These are the people who live "in houses [and] cabins ten and fifteen miles away" from Lonnie Grinnup's shack (71). According to "Hand Upon the Waters," Lonnie Grinnup and Joe periodically visit them, sometimes "for weeks" - the story simply refers to them as "his hosts" (71). They mostly seem to be farmers, since Lonnie and Joe sometimes sleep in "the hay of lofts," but some of them at least are prosperous enough to have "company rooms" with "beds" to sleep in (71).
Aleck Sander attends the "Negro school" in Jefferson, while his lifelong friend Chick attends the "white school" (126). Both schools are closed when Gavin mentions them, because of the threat of a lynching. This is one of the few places in the fictions that acknowledge the reality of Yoknapatawpha's segregated school system, and is an instance of how, in this novel, the absence of the Negro population or the closing of the "Negro school" makes what can usually be assumed more explicit.
Chapter 21 tells the comic tale of Virgil Snopes and Fonzo Winbush, who come from Yoknapatawpha to the big city, Memphis, to attend "the barber's college" (193). The novel never actually shows them at the school, so we have to speculate about where it is and what it's like - nor can we say how well they learn to cut hair, since all the scenes involving them take place in Memphis brothels.
Built at the start of the 20th century, the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, was among the earliest federal prisons. Ratliff refers to it hypothetically as a place Montgomery Ward Snopes could have ended up after his misbehavior in France during World War I.
This "testing field" is the airfield where young Bayard Sartoris "finally got himself killed," as Charles Mallison puts it, "testing an aeroplane" that "nobody else would fly" (125). The event is described in detail at the end of Flags in the Dust.
In The Hamlet Ratliff heads "six miles in the opposite direction" from Ben Quick's farm in a failed attempt to sell a sewing machine - and as part of his scheme to get Flem Snopes to buy Quick's goats (91).
In The Sound and the Fury the sheriff of Yoknapatawpha lives in "a frame house" with a "flower bordered walk to the porch" (301). To reach it, Jason drives across the Square, then turns into a "narrow" and "quiet" street (301). It is close enough to the Negro section of town for him to hear the church bells ringing there as he tries to convince the sheriff to go after his niece.
Shreve McCannon was born in the western Canadian province of Alberta (208). His entry in the "Genealogy" at the end of the novel notes that he is still alive, and "a practicing surgeon" in Edmonton, the capital of Alberta (309).
