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.