Carpenter House (Richland Parish, Louisiana)
Carpenter House in Richland Parish, Louisiana is a historic antebellum structure near Delhi, Louisiana that served during the 1850s as a popular inn on the Vicksburg, Mississippi to Monroe, Louisiana stagecoach line.[1][2][3] It is of one-story gabled frame construction set on brick pillars, with six square wooden columns,[1] unique for the five thicknesses of sheathing and lining that encase its log walls.[3]
The house's history includes associations with the outlaw Jesse James and American Civil War General Alexander Chambers of the Union Army.[1][4] Legend holds that the house was named for an outlaw named Samuel Carpenter who led the infamous Cave-in-Rock Bandits and was slain near Vidalia, Louisiana in 1803.[2] However, historical research suggests that when stagecoach service began on the public road through the area in 1849, horses were changed at Charles Carpenter's house.[3]
References
- ^ a b c United States Works Progress Administration: Louisiana; a Guide to the State, Compiled by Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Louisiana, American Guide Series, Hastings House, Publishers, New York, Third Printing, 1945, p. 481, https://books.google.com/books?id=lOSvzYLs3tMC, last accessed 16 Feb 2019.
- ^ a b Anne Butler: The Pelican Guide to Plantation Homes of Louisiana, Eighth Edition, Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, La., 2009, p. 133, https://books.google.com/books?id=z6xF3flz6cgC, last accessed 16 Feb 2019.
- ^ a b c Clare D’Artois Leeper: Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, La., 2012, pp. 83-84, https://books.google.com/books?id=HgL-Yi7GIEQC, last accessed 10 Nov 2019.
- ^ Lyle Saxon, Edward Dreyer, and Robert Tallant: Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana, Louisiana Library Commission, Pelican Publishing Company, Inc., Sixth Printing, February 2012, Chapter 11, https://books.google.com/books?id=e9mZBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT203, last accessed 16 Feb 2019.