Editing Birdseye, Indiana (section)

==History==
Birdseye was [[platted]] in 1880.<ref>{{cite book|author=Goodspeed Brothers|title=History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4uIKAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA561|isbn=978-5-87521-222-2|page=561}}</ref> Popular tradition says the town was first known as Bird, after Rev. "Bird" Johnson, who was helping to select a location for the first post office when he said "this spot suits Bird's eye".<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_E1Q0AQAAMAAJ | title=History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910 | publisher=Windmill Publications | author=Wilson, George R. | year=1910 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_E1Q0AQAAMAAJ/page/n352 361]}}</ref> The Birdseye post office has been in operation since 1856.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Dubois | title=Dubois County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=July 6, 2016}}</ref>

[[File:Birdseye Indiana.jpg|thumb|Photo from Small Town Indiana photo survey.]]
[[File:Birdseye, Indiana.JPG|thumb|left|upright|Town water tower]]