IN THE EARLY 1800S, INDIANA WAS A WILD, RICH LAND OF FERTILE FIELDS AND ABUNDANT FORESTS. THE LAND PROVIDED A GOOD LIVING FOR THE HARD-WORKING PIONEER FAMILIES WHO SETTLED HERE. ONE OF THESE EARLY SETTLERS WAS BUSINESSMAN ALEXANDER J. KENT, FIRST CITIZEN OF THE TOWN OF KENTLAND.
Kentland was a crossroad of only two buildings when it was named Newton County Seat in 1859. Over the years, both the population and the number of buildings grew steadily. Through the early part of this century, residents built schools and churches while developing business and commerce.
But hard times came even to agriculturally rich Indiana in the Great Depression of the 1920s. Residents felt the same economic hardship that beset the rest of the country. Many people were unemployed, banks closed and worse still, farm prices fell to painful lows. Substantial local funds had been lost in the demise of the Newton County State Bank in 1931.
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