THE MAYCOMB JAIL. The
Maycomb jail is located near the northwest corner of the town square in the most
distinctive looking building in the town. It is a narrow, two-story structure that must
have looked something like a tiny castle, "a miniature Gothic joke one cell wide and two
cells high." It looked "hideous," according to Scout. The
jail
was
wedged between Tyndal's Hardware Store and The Maycomb Tribune
office.
THE
EWELL HOUSE. Bob Ewell, the present head of the family that has "been
the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations," lives with his children in a house
located near the Quarters, where most of the town's African-Americans
live.
Maycomb's Ewell's lived behind the town garbage
dump in what was once a Negro
cabin.
The house had four
tiny rooms which opened into a "shotgun hall." The Ewells "gleaned" through the dump
each day, and apparently left many of their retrieved items in their dirty yard. On one
side of the yard, however, daughter Mayella proudly displayed
her
brilliant
red geraniums, cared for as tenderly as if they belonged to Miss Maudie
Atkinson...
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