Editing Jasper, Indiana (section)

==History==
Jasper was founded in 1818.<ref>{{cite gnis|436944|Jasper, Indiana|2016-11-04}}</ref> The Enlow family were the first settlers of the town.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://jasperin.org/history/ | title=History | publisher=Jasper Chamber of Commerce | access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref> Jasper was originally going to be named "Eleanor" after the wife of early settler Joseph Enlow, but she opted to suggest a name herself, and named the city after a passage in the Bible (Revelation 21:19).<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/historyofduboisc02wils | title=History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910 | publisher=Published by the author. | author=Wilson, George R. | year=1910 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofduboisc02wils/page/161 161]}}</ref>

Jasper was not officially platted until 1830.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/historyofduboisc02wils | title=History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910 | publisher=Published by the author. | author=Wilson, George R. | year=1910 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofduboisc02wils/page/160 160]}}</ref> That year, the community became the new county seat of Dubois County, succeeding [[Portersville, Indiana|Portersville]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.irelandindiana.com/PortersvilleHistory/Index.htm | title=Portersville History | access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref>

The Jasper post office has been in operation since 1832.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Dubois&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Dubois County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=December 11, 2016}}</ref> During the [[New Deal]] era, [[Jessie Hull Mayer]] won a federal commission to paint a [[United States post office murals|mural]] as part of the [[Section of Painting and Sculpture]]′s projects, later called the [[Section of Fine Arts]], of the [[United States Department of the Treasury|Treasury Department]]. ''Indiana Farming Scene in Late Autumn'' depicts a harvest scene on a farmstead, with no indication of the town.<ref>{{cite book|last=Carlisle|first=John C.|title=A Simple and Vital Design: The Story of the Indiana Post Office Murals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iBHpAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Indiana Historical Society|location=Indianapolis, Indiana|isbn=978-0-87195-110-6|page=57}}</ref> In 1975, the painting was featured as part of a film, ''Art for Main Street: The Indiana Post Office Murals'', produced by the [[Indiana Historical Society]].<ref>{{cite news|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Post Office Mural Featured in Film|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9623233/post_office_mural_featured_in_film_the/|access-date=17 March 2017|publisher=The Herald|date=May 16, 1975|location=Jasper, Indiana|page=1|via = [[Newspapers.com]]}} {{open access}}</ref>

Jasper was incorporated as a town in 1866, and was incorporated into a city in 1915.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.jasperindiana.gov/category/?categoryid=12 | title=About Our City | access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref><ref name="GR6">{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |access-date=2011-06-07 |title=Find a County |publisher=National Association of Counties |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531210815/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |archive-date=2011-05-31 }}</ref>