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Yoknapatawpha County (/ j ɒ k n ə p ə ˈ t ɔː f ə /) is a fictional Mississippi county created by the American author William Faulkner, largely based on and inspired by Lafayette County, Mississippi, and its county seat of Oxford (which Faulkner renamed "Jefferson"). Faulkner often referred to Yoknapatawpha County as "my apocryphal county ...
The Faulkner County Courthouse is located at 801 Locust Street in Conway, the county seat of Faulkner County, Arkansas. It is a four-story masonry structure, built out of light-colored brick and concrete. It has an H shape, with symmetrical wings on either side of a center section.
Silas Owens Sr. (1907 – April 4, 1960) [1] was an African-American mason and builder in Arkansas who was noted for his distinctive style of construction. Many of the homes and buildings that Owens built are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places primarily found in the Faulkner County, Arkansas area.
The Faulkner County Museum is located in the former Faulkner County Jail, on Courthouse Square in the center of Conway, the county seat of Faulkner County, Arkansas. It is a two-story masonry structure, built out of stone and brick with a stuccoed finish. A three-story square tower projects from one corner, topped by a pyramidal roof.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Faulkner County, Arkansas, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
Thus, Colonel Falkner is the inspiration for an integral part of the history of Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Faulkner's short story "Knight's Gambit" (in the 1949 collection Knight's Gambit ) has been viewed as including a commentary on Falkner's The White Rose of Memphis (1881).
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Daniel J. Faulkner (December 21, 1955 – December 9, 1981) was the youngest of seven children in an Irish Catholic family from Southwest Philadelphia. Faulkner's father, a trolley car driver, died of a heart attack when Faulkner was five. Faulkner's mother went to work and relied on her older children to help raise him.