Potential Location of the Green Chapel

Bury St. Edmunds Jail was opened in 1787 and closed 1878, in the middle of the Victorian period. It was located in Southgate Green, near London, in Suffolk County. Bury St. Edmunds was one of the many prisons to hold many public executions in its day. However, with the decline of the approval of public executions during the Victorian period, that number decreased. Dissatisfaction began to grow as people started to express deep concerns about these horrific events. Despite this growth, public executions were still held with thousands in attendance.

Now the location of Mel's Dairy Dream, this was the address of Harper Lee's childhood home in Monroeville, Alabama. A couple of miles down the road are the remains of the Faulk home, the house where Truman Capote, the inspiration for the character of Dill, stayed with his cousins in the summer. Many scholars have noted biographical similarities between Harper Lee and Scout. One such connection is between Monroeville and Maycomb, the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird.