Mapping Maycomb
Using the following quotes, create a map of Maycomb county. Put the number on the map to show
which quote is represented.
1. “…established a homestead on the banks of the Alabama River some forty miles above Saint Stevens…”
2. “Maycomb, some twenty miles east of Finch’s Landing, was the seat of Maycomb County”
3. “Atticus’s office in the courthouse…”
4. “amble across the square, shuffled in and out of stores around it…”
5. “We lived on the main residential street in town…”
6. “Our summertime boundaries were Dubose’s house two doors to the north of us, and the Radley’s three
doors to the south.”
7. Dill was next door in Miss Rachel Haverford’s collard patch
8. “Cunninghams from Old Sarum,…in the northern part of the county…”
9. “…county’s riverside gambling hall, the Dew Drop Inn & Fish Camp…”
10. Locked Mr. Conner in the courthouse outhouse…
11. “…me in the treehouse, looking over at the schoolyard…through the telescope…”
“we trotted around the corner past the Radley place…”
12. “[Miss Caroline] boarded across the street one door down from us in Miss Maudie Atkinson’s upstairs
front room…”
13. “Two live oaks stood at the edge of the Radley lot…”
14. “Cecil Jacobs, ,who lived at the far end of our street next door to the post office, walked a total of mone
mile per school day to avoid the Radley place and old Mrs. Henry Lafayett Dubose.”
15. “Mrs. Dubose lived two doors up the street from us…”
“Mr. Nathan Radley passed us on his daily trips to town…”
16. “Dill remained at the light pole on the front center of the lot, Jem and I edged down the sidewalk
parallel to the side of the house. I walked beyond Jem and stood where I could see around the curve.”
17. “We leaped over the low wall that separated Miss Rachel’s yard from our driveway…”
18. “He pointed to the east. A gigantic moon was rising behind Miss Maudie’s pecan trees.”
19. “Mr. Avery boarded across the street from Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose’s house.”
20. “We thought it was better to go under the high wire fence at the rear of the Radley lot…[t]he fence
enclosed a large garden and a narrow wooden outhouse.”
21. “We came to the gate that divided the garden from the backyard.”
22. “the back of the Radley house was less inviting than the front: a ramshackle porch ran the width of the
house, there were two doors and two dark windows between the doors.”
23. “Fence by the schoolyard!...Dill and I rolled through and were halfway to the shelter of the school
yard’s solitary oak when we sensed Jem was not with us.”
24. We ran across the schoolyard, crawled under the fence to Deer’s Pasture behind our house, climbed
our back fence, and were at the back steps…”
25. “We were playin’ strip poker up yonder by the fish pool…”
26. “Gamblin’ by [Miss Rachel’s] fish pool…”
27. “Tim Johnson was the property of Mr. Harry Johnson who drove the Mobile bus and lived on the
southern edge of town…”
28. “Tim Johnson reached the side street that ran in front of the Radley Place…paused and seemed to
consider which road he would take…”
29. “cowardly to stop at Miss Rachel’s front steps and wait…run as far as the post office each evening to
Meet Atticus coming home from work…”
30. “The OK Café was a dim organization on the north side of the square…”
31. “First Purchase African M. E. Church was in the Quarters outside the southern town limits, across the
old saw mill tracks. It was an ancient paint-peeling from building, the only church in Maycomb with a
steeple and bell…”
32. “The churchyard was brick-hard clay, as was the cemetery beside it.”
33. “the tribe of …Ewell[s]…had lived on the same plot of earth behind the Maycomb dump…for three
generations.”
34. “It was twenty miles east of Finch’s landing, awkwardly inland for such an old town.”
35. “Instead, Maycomb grew and sprawled out from its hub, Sinkfield’s Tavern…”
36. “…Abbot County, Alabama, just across the river from Maycomb…”
37. “Maycomb Junction (a courtesy title--- Maycomb Junction was in Abbott County)
38. “ He had walked ten or eleven of the fourteen miles to Maycomb, off the highway in the scrub
bushes…”
39. “…there was always a Chevrolet in excellent condition in the car house…”
40. “We leaped over the driveway wall, cut through Miss Rachel’s side yard and went to Dill’s window.”
41. “We went by Mrs. Dubose’s house, standing empty and shuttered, her camellias grow up in weeds and
Johnson grass. There were eight more house to the post office corner.”
42. “The south side of the square was deserted. Giant monkey-puzzle bushes bristled on each corner, and
between them an iron hitching rail glistened under the street lights. A light show in the county toilet,
otherwise that side of the courthouse was dark. A large square of stores surrounded the courthouse
square…”
43. “Atticus’s office was…move to quieter quarters in the Maycomb Bank building. When we rounded the
corner of the square, we saw the car parked in front of the bank.”
44. “Mr. Underwood not only ran The Maycomb Tribune office, he lived in it. That is, above it.”
45. “The Maycomb school grounds adjoined the back of the Radley lot; from the Radley chicken yard tall
pecan trees shook their fruit in the schoolyard…”
46. “drew him no nearer than the light pole on the corner, a safe distance from the Radley gate.”
47. “The Radley place jutted into a sharp curve beyond our house. Walking south, one faced its porch; the
sidewalk turned and ran beside the lot. The house was low, was once white with a deep front porch and
had green shutters, but had long ago darkened to the color of the slate-grey yard around it.”
48. “…the Maycomb jail was a miniature gothic joke one cell wide and two cells high…It stood on no lonely
hill, but was wedged between Tyndal’s Hardware Store and the Maycomb Tribune office.”
49. “We were taking a short cut across the square when four dusty cars came in from the Meridian
highway…they went around the square, passed the bank building , and stopped in front of the jail.”
50. “We streaked across the street, until we were in the shelter of the Jitney Jungle door. ..We ran to
Tyndal’s Hardware door, near enough, at the same time discreet.”
51. Miss Stephanie Crawford comes by the Finch’s house on her way to the Jitney Jungle and the
courthouse.
52. “The courthouse square was covered with picnic parties sitting on newspapers…”
53. “The Maycomb County courthouse was fairly reminiscent of Arlington in one respect: the concrete
pillars supporting its south roof were too heavy for their light burden.”
54. “Maycomb’s Ewells lived behind the town garbage dump in what was once a Negro cabin. The cabin’s
plank walls were supplemented with sheets of corrugated iron, its roof shingled with tin cans hammered
flat, so its general shape suggested its original design: square, with four tiny rooms opening onto a
shotgun hall, the cabin rested uneasily upon four irregular lumps of limestone. Its windows were merely
open spaces in the wall, which in the summertime were covered with greasy strips of cheesecloth ot keep
out the varmints that feasted on Maycomb’s refuse.”
55. “ A dirt road ran from the highway past the dump, down to a small Negro settlement some five
hundred yards beyond the Ewells’ It was necessary to either to back out to the highway or go the full
length of the road and run around; most people turned around in the Negro's front yards.”