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]
^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.