Colonel William Jones House,[2] also known as William Jones State Historic Site,[3] is a historic house in Gentryville and the Lincoln State Park in Jackson Township, Spencer County, Indiana.

[5] William Jones was exposed to important people and events in his childhood and received a good education.

He left Kentucky and opened a successful store in Jonesboro, Spencer County, Indiana in 1827 and lived in a nearby log cabin.

[5] Jones sold and bartered merchandise and shipped farmer's grain, tobacco, hides, pork, venison, and beef to New Orleans on flatboats.

"[8] Jones was elected in 1838 to the Indiana General Assembly, where he supported internal improvements and economic development[2] and served until 1841.

Lincoln, who was then an Illinois elector became a Whig, had heard Jones political views and campaigned.

The Jones Home represents those successful entrepreneurs who stayed in Southern Indiana instead of moving further west.

[9] In addition to Jones' house and store and the other dwellings along Corydon Road, the settlement had a school, physician's office, and blacksmith.