Gentryville, IN

Gentryville is a town in Jackson Township, Spencer County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The 2020 census counted 243 residents. Gentryville was platted in December 1854, and named for James Gentry, an early settler and local businessman. Earlier, in the late 1820s, Abraham Lincoln worked as a clerk, and often slept, in a general store Gentryville, operated by William Jones. Gentryville is part of the North Spencer County School Corporation. Prior to 1948, the community had its own high school. The short version is that Gentryville carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Gentryville: its past remains attached to the places people use now.