Test Your Jasper Knowledge - The Answers

1. How many miles of street are in Jasper?

107 miles

2. Sturm's Hardware has been in continuous business since when?

Since 1866

3. How many stoplights are owned by the City of Jasper?

Only 1 (located at 3rd Ave. and Meridian Road). All the rest are owned and maintained by the State of Indiana because they are
on State right-of-way

4. How many city parks are in Jasper?

16 city parks

5. When and where was Jasper's first bank robbery?

1930 at German American Bank

6. How many Mayors have served Jasper?

12 (as of 2011)

7. What is the population of Jasper's Sister City of Pfaffenweiler, Germany?

2,500

8. What year did the original Courthouse, and all its records, burn?

1839

9. What was the original name of Heichelbech's Restaurant and Bar?

Ray's Tap Room

10. What was the original use of Car 300 on the Spirit of Jasper Train?

It was a coffin car used to transport deceased WW 1 soldiers to their home towns

11. How high is the water wheel at the Jasper City Mill?

24 feet high

12. What was the cost to build St. Joseph's Church (completed in 1880)?

$65,000

13. How tall is the Jasper Fire Department's Tower Truck when the ladder is fully extended?

100 ft.

14. Can you name any of the original 14 families who settled in Jasper from Pfaffenweiler, Germany?

Baumann, Eckerle, Eckert, Erb, Daeschle, George, Kiefer, Kraft, Lang, Stenftenagel, Schmidt, Schuler, Steinle, Zipfel

15. What building once stood where the present Jasper Public Library is located?

Habig Brewery which produced "Jasper Common Draft Beer"

16. Jasper was the first city to have an Ordinance (law of the City) that requires every newly built house to have one of these installed?

A garbage disposal

17. In 1915, which downtown building was the Ideal Bowling & Billiard Hall?

Siebert's

18. How many gallons of water does the Central Water Tower at Newton and16th Street hold?

1 million gallons

19. What was the nickname of the Holy Family area beyond the 3rd Avenue bridge?

Little Kentucky