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Historic Markers: 
William Faulkner

Marker Erected:  1991

Location:  St. Peter's Cemetery and North 16th Street

     

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  Location Directions:  From the stop light at the intersection of Jackson Avenue and Highway 6, travel east on Highway 6 until you reach the Lamar Blvd. exit.  Take a left on Lamar and continue North until you have gone through the Square.  Take a right on Jefferson Blvd.  Then take a left on 16th Street.  When you reach the halfway point in the Oxford Cemetery, the site and marker will be on your right.  Click here for a map.

Inscription:  William Faulkner:  The creator of Yoknapatawpha County, whose stories about his people won him the Nobel Prize, is buried twenty steps east of this marker.