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History · Gentryville

Half of Gentryville’s homes were built after 1992

Most of Gentryville was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1992.

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What stands out about Gentryville’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Gentryville are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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How Gentryville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Gentryville.

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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. (Lincoln: A Self Made Man, Sidney Blumenthal 2016, pp. 35–36).

The Gentryville post office has been in operation since 1826.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.