Gentryville
The home of Colonel Jones
A small dot of a town, Gentryville is the location of the Colonel William Jones State Historic Site, an 1834 Federal style brick home, most likely the nicest in the area at that time set on 100 wooded acres with a restored log barn and self guided nature trail, is just two miles west of the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial and Lincoln State Park.
The young Lincoln clerked in Jones – store and worked odd jobs for him. In 1844 when Lincoln, now an attorney, returned to Indiana to campaign for presidential candidate Henry Clay, he stayed at his former employer’s home, speaking in one of the front rooms to old friends who came to see him.