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]: 83–84
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
[edit]- ^ a b c Louisiana: A Guide to the State. US History Publishers. 1976. ISBN 978-1-60354-017-9.
- ^ a b Butler, Anne (2009-04-02). The Pelican Guide to Plantation Homes of Louisiana. Pelican Publishing. ISBN 978-1-58980-709-9.
- ^ a b c Leeper, Clare D’Artois (2012-10-19). Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-4738-2.
- ^ 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.