Wednesday, September 14, 2011

What are the quotes and page numbers that locate important places in Maycomb County in To Kill a Mockingbird?I'm reading the 50th anniversary...

THE MAYCOMB TOWN SQUARE
Walking north from the Finch house, you would pass Rachel Haverford's house and
then Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose's house. According to Scout, "there were eight more
houses to the post office corner" on the south side of the square (Cecil Jacobs' house
was the last house nearest the post office). "A large square of stores surrounded the
courtyard square," and there was a public toilet near the post office. Rounding the
corner, you would see the Maycomb Bank building, where Atticus had his office. Further
up the street was Tyndal's Hardware Store; next to it was the Maycomb jail; and on the
northwest corner sat the The Maycomb Tribune office. The Maycomb
County Courthouse sits in the middle of the town
square.


Other businesses were the O. K. Cafe, on the north
side of the square; V. J. Elmore's, where Jem bought Scout the baton which he used to
destroy Mrs. Dubose's camellias; the Jitney Jungle, which Miss Stephanie
Crawford frequented; and the Mayco Drug Store, which sold fountain
drinks.


Other Finch neighbors included Miss Maudie
Atkinson, who lived across the street; Miss Stephanie, who lived next door to Miss
Maudie; Scout's teacher, Miss Caroline, who boarded with Miss Maudie; and Mr.
Dick Avery, who boarded across the street from Mrs. Dubose's
house.


MAYCOMB COUNTY'S PLACES OF
INTEREST


  • Finch's
    Landing
    , 20 miles west of
    Maycomb.

  • Maycomb Junction,
    the train station 14 miles outside
    Maycomb.

  • Old Sarum, a rural
    area in the northern part of the county, mostly inhabited by Cunninghams and
    Coninghams.

  • The
    Dew
    -Drop Inn &
    Fishing Camp, the area's
    "riverside gambling hell" where you could buy "stumphole
    whiskey."

  • The River
    (presumably the Alabama River) near the county
    line. 

  • Barker's Eddy, a
    favorite swimming hole  "at the end of a dirt road off the Meridian highway about a mile
    from town."

  • The Radley
    Place
    , three doors to the south of the Finch
    house.

  • Maycomb County
    High School
    , around the corner from the Radley house, and "just past the
    grammar school building."

  • The
    Quarters
    , where the Negroes lived not far from the dump "outside the
    southern town limits."

  • First Purchase AME
    Church
    , in the Quarters.

  • The
    Ewell house
    , behind the town garbage
    dump.

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