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Gentry Home Site

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On this spot stood the first Indiana home of James Gentry, who settled here in 1818. In this two story log house with a breezeway, he reared his family of eight children. Here in the spring of 1830, the Lincoln family spent its last night in this community before departing for Illinois.
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