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The places.

A location named once is the same location every time. The third booth at the diner is the same booth in book one and book nine; the plant in the Flats is the same plant whose closing one book mourns and another exposes. Below: every place in Harmon, by kind, the establishments on Main Street, the civic buildings, the districts, the homes, the waterfront, and the roads characters take to leave. Explore them all on the interactive map.

Main Street & downtown.

Three blocks of the old commercial core, half-vacant now. The Lamplighter, Roasters, and Haskell Hardware run east in that order.

  • The Lamplighter · the diner; the Seer’s recurring booth, pouring since 1977
  • Roasters · the coffee shop between the diner and the hardware store; a Seer venue in later books
  • Haskell Hardware · built 1962, the counter 1971; the pencil marks on the door frame
  • The Harmon Sentinel · the county weekly; the record the town keeps of itself, printed every Thursday
  • Reilly’s Sporting Goods · founded 1957; the bell, the oak counter, the change put in your hand
  • First Federal · Harmon’s bank; the HELOC, the foreclosure paperwork
  • The barbershop, the florist, the dry cleaner, the Varsity Theater · the south-side row

Civic & institutional.

  • Harmon County Courthouse · Courthouse Square; the courthouse steps recur across the series
  • Harmon Town Hall · Ruth Calloway’s basement clerk’s office
  • St. Clare’s Hospital · Cass & Church; the ER, the ICU, the surgical floor, four books work here
  • Harmon High School · David Marsh’s Room 217; Warren Gibbs’s English room below
  • Harmon Elementary · far East Side; Cooper Marsh, Pam Reilly’s classroom
  • First Baptist Church · David Rourke’s pulpit, on Bishop Hill
  • St. Anne’s Catholic Church · the Torres family parish, Fourth Street, North End

Eldercare, out Route 9.

The far end of the rural road, where the town sends the people it cannot keep.

The plant & the Flats.

  • Calloway–Harmon plant · the pork plant, the town’s engine and its wound; closed December 2024
  • The grain elevator · on the rail spur; the Harmon County Fairgrounds beside it

The big-box bypass & the West Edge.

  • Harmon Supercenter · the first big-box store on the bypass
  • ValueMart · the middle store; the grocery run as town decline
  • HomePlus · the chain whose grand-opening circular ends Haskell Hardware
  • The strip mall & the OTB · the West Edge, off Route 9; The Good Father’s gambling geography

The waterfront.

  • Lake Harmon · the drinking water, the public beach, the lake the children swam in
  • Harmon Harbor Marina · Nora Finch’s marina; the only outdoor Seer encounter, at the end of the dock
  • The Harmon (lake) tunnel · Route 11 north under the lake toward Bridgeport

The districts.

  • Downtown · Main Street, the historic core
  • The North End · the oldest neighborhood, the numbered grid, St. Anne’s
  • The East Side · the hospital, the high school, the tree-streets, Bishop Hill, Pinewood
  • The waterfront · north of Water Street; marina, park, beach
  • The Flats · the plant, the river, the grain elevator, the fairgrounds

Homes & the roads out.

  • The Marsh house · 1847 Third Street, North End (The Good Father)
  • The Torres house · Riverside Avenue, North End (The Lawyer Daughter)
  • Elena Voss’s bungalow · Maple Drive, Pinewood (The Tending Woman)
  • Lakeview Memory Care & Pine Ridge Senior Care · out Route 9 west, beyond Marl
  • Route 9 (Marl ↔ Hartwick), Route 11 (the capital ↔ Bridgeport), Route 6 (the eastern back road)