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Carpenter's Station, Louisiana

Coordinates: 32°27′46″N 91°34′05″W / 32.46278°N 91.56806°W / 32.46278; -91.56806
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Carpenter's Station, Louisiana
Carpenter's Station, Louisiana is located in Louisiana
Carpenter's Station, Louisiana
Carpenter's Station, Louisiana
Carpenter's Station, Louisiana is located in the United States
Carpenter's Station, Louisiana
Carpenter's Station, Louisiana
Coordinates: 32°27′46″N 91°34′05″W / 32.46278°N 91.56806°W / 32.46278; -91.56806
CountryUnited States
StateLouisiana
ParishRichland Parish
Elevation
86.392 ft (26.332 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)

Carpenter's Station, Louisiana, is an unincorporated historical community centered around a 19th century railroad stop in Richland Parish, Louisiana.[1][2][3]

The 1875 Cram's Rail Road & Township Map of Louisiana and the 1879 Rand, McNally & Co.'s Business Atlas Map of Louisiana show the location as "Carpenter's" and "Carpenters" (respectively) between Bee Bayou and Delhi, Louisiana, east of modern-day Rayville in northeastern Richland Parish.[4][5][6] The 1897 Rand, McNally & Co.'s New Business Atlas Map of Louisiana places "Carpenters" between Callaway and Delhi.[7]

The railroad serving the community in 1879 was the Louisiana & Texas R. R.[5] and in 1897 the Shreveport & Pacific R. R.[7]

References

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  1. ^ Lockett, Samuel Henry (1969). Louisiana as it is: A Geographical and Topographical Description of the State. Pelican Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4556-0771-6.
  2. ^ Louisiana (1878). Documents ... of the State of Louisiana.
  3. ^ Veatch, Arthur Clifford (1906). Geology and Underground Water Resources of Northern Louisiana and Southern Arkansas. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  4. ^ Cram's Rail Road & Township Map of Louisiana, published by George F. Cram, Proprietor of the Western Map Depot, 66 Lake St., Chicago, Ills., 1875, in the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, List No. 5370.022, http://www.oldmapsonline.org/map/rumsey/5370.022, last accessed 22 Nov 2018.
  5. ^ a b Rand, McNally & Co.'s Louisiana, Rand, McNally & Co., Printers, Engravers and Publishers, Chicago, 1878-9, in the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, List No. 4520.037, http://www.oldmapsonline.org/map/rumsey/4520.037, last accessed 22 Nov 2018.
  6. ^ R. B. Marshall, Chief Geographer: Spirit Leveling in Louisiana, 1903 to 1915, Inclusive, United States Geological Survey Bulletin 634, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1916, https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/0634/report.pdf, p. 35, retrieved March 11, 2018: BASKINTON QUADRANGLE. [Latitude 32° 15'-32° 30'; longitude 91° 30'-91° 45'.] From Carpenter west along railroad to Rayville. Carpenter station, in southeast corner of yard of cabin standing opposite railroad platform, 15.4 meters north of center of track and 23.8 meters southeast of southeast corner of cabin: Bolt in stone under ground (U.S.C.E. p. b. m. 14)...86.752 Top of cap on iron post...90.820.
  7. ^ a b Rand, McNally & Co.'s New Business Atlas Map of Louisiana, Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago, 1897, in the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, List No. 3565.098, http://www.oldmapsonline.org/map/rumsey/3565.098, last accessed 22 Nov 2018.