[3] The Lieutenant Douglas B. Fournet Memorial Park, an American Legion enterprise, was dedicated on June 11, 1988, in Kinder to remember those who died in military service to the nation.

Kinder was the birthplace of the late Mayor J. Rayburn Bertrand of Lafayette, who served from 1960 to 1972 and presided over the near doubling of the municipal population.

[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 5.5 square miles (14.3 km2), all land.

Among the first families who came to Kinder, all employees of Watkins Enterprises, were Milton B. McRill, John M. Houston and Philetus Philbrick.

McRill bought lots at the corner of Ninth Street and Fourth Avenue and built the first home in Kinder.

McRill, who became one of the early mayors of Kinder, often provided lodging and meals for teachers because he believed strongly in education.

About 35 miles (56 km) before the railroad reached Lake Charles, Houston selected and purchased a tract of timber land.

He built a sawmill and commissary on the tract north of Kinder, alongside the railroad, to enable him to ship logs to other states.

Philetus Philbrick came south from the University of Iowa, where he had helped set up the Department of Engineering and taught there for 14 years.

At that time Watkins was spending enormous sums of money promoting his "Garden of Eden" in southwest Louisiana.

Among the new settlers were families named Storer, Mayfield, Jones, Phelps, Mayes, Reynolds, Johnson, Harvey, Leeds and Oden.

Migues, Percy LeLand, Lee St. Romain, Cledius LaFargue, Fred Ashy, for whom the municipal building is named, and Estes Ledoux.

Kinder was used as the headquarters for the Blue Army during the Louisiana Maneuvers preceding the United States entry into WWII.