Jasper travel guide

Jasper is a city in Dubois County, Indiana, United States. The population was 12,100 at the 2000 census. The city has been the county seat of Dubois County since 1830, succeeding Portersville. In 1970 the school system of Ireland, a hamlet west of Jasper along State Route 56, was consolidated into that of Jasper http://www.irelandindiana.com/. On November 4, 2007, Dubois County returned to the Eastern Time Zone, after having moved to the Central Time Zone the previous year.
Supercentenarian Minnie Kearby, once the oldest resident of Indiana, was perhaps one of Jasper's best-known residents; born in Ireland, Indiana on April 14, 1893, she moved to a Jasper care facility in November 2004. She died the following winter. It is also the hometown of Major League Baseball player Scott Rolen of the St. Louis Cardinals. The current Catholic Archbishop of Indianapolis, Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., also hails from Jasper.
The town of Jasper is a regional center in southwestern Indiana. It is noted for its heavily German Catholic ancestral roots. Jasper has often been dubbed the "Wood Capital of the World", boasting a very large number of furniture companies. In a town with only 12,000 people, its daytime population can reach 50,000. It has an unemployment rate that hovers around 2.5 percent, making it one of the lowest in the state. Furthermore, despite its location in the southern hills and lowlands region, Dubois County is first in the state in terms of agriculture output including hogs and corn. Jasper is also home to the Southern Indiana Education Service Center (SIEC) and to a lovely campus of Vincennes University. (...) more....