Eurekaton, Tennessee is a small but historically significant
hamlet
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located approximately halfway between
Memphis and
Jackson. The town is mentioned in correspondence by both
Vladimir Nabokov (who, with his wife, lodged there in the early 1950s while collecting butterfly specimens in its near vicinity) and by
William Faulkner
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, among others.
Populated places in Haywood County, Tennessee
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