Dubois County History: Jasper Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 4/25/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

No Night Caching. Any indication of night caching will result in deleted logs. Container is a small lock-n-lock.

Jasper


In the mid-1820s, the settlement now know as Jasper began. The earliest settlers were English American Protestants that were relocating from the Kentucky-Tennessee region. The Patoka River was critical to Jasper's early development. It served as a transportation route and as a power source. A grist mill was built along the Patoka river by Andrew Evans. This was later sold to the Enlow family. The Enlow family had moved from Kentucky. The Enlows were neighbors to the Lincoln Family when they lived in Kentucky. Mrs. Enlow is rumored to have been the midwife present at Abraham Lincoln's birth.

Jasper was originally know as Enlow's Hill. In 1830, the county seat was relocated from Portersville to Jasper. The Enlows donated eighty acres for the town to be built on. Enlow's Hill was renamed Jasper in reference to Revelations 21:19 from the Bible:
“and the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stones . . . the first foundation was of Jasper."

A new courthouse and jail were built on the land donated by the Enlows. The original courthouse was destroyed by fire in 1839. A new brick courthouse was built to replace in it 1844 by Father Joseph Kundeck. This courthouse was later replaced by the current courthouse in 1911 and an annex added in 1992. A second annex was purchased in 2002.

Before Father Kundek came in 1838, Jasper was a mission parish with only five Catholic families and a total population of about sixty people. The first log church was built at Sixth and Newton Streets, with services held once a month. He was the first resident Catholic Priest. As he could speak German when he came to the Vincennes Diocese, Father Kundek was assigned to Jasper. Immediately he began to encourage German immigrants to settle in this parish. The local population began to grow, many coming from Cincinnati and from the Black Forest area and small German, Baden villages such as Pfaffenweiler, Reute, and from Bavaria. Many emigrated to the New World due to hard years of bad harvests hoping for a better life for them and their families. The German population increased. Because of a cultural and language gap between the Germans and the English speaking people, many of the earliest settlers moved on to other areas.

Because of the increasing population, Father Kundek started the parishioners clearing land, processing timber and other needed materials, and the first St. Joseph Church, built in brick, was started by 1840. All the work was done by the parishioners.

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