PYNCHON MOCKINGBIRDS LEE

[Terrance]

But Maycomb would have been closer to the river had it not been for the
nimble-wittedness of one Sinkfield, who in the dawn of history operated
an inn where two 
pig-trails met, the only tavern in the territory. Sinkfield, no 
patriot, served and supplied ammunition to Indians and settlers alike, 
neither knowing or caring whether he was a part of the Alabama 
Territory or the Creek Nation so long as business was good. Business 
was excellent when Governor William Wyatt Bibb, with a view to 
promoting the newly created county's domestic tranquility, 
dispatched a team of surveyors to locate its exact center and there 
establish its seat of government. The surveyors, Sinkfield's guests, 

http://www.stjohnsprep.org/teachers/mm_english/lee/mockingbird/chapter13.html