What details directly or indirectly suggest the time and place of the story ? List at least four and be specific.

The first lines read, On the Southern coast, between Merton and Shawboro , there is a strip of desolation some half a mile wide and nearly ten miles long between the sea and old fields of ruined plantations. The tiime period seems like it is into the age of automobiles but though carts and horses are still recent memories.