Ferdinand

It is a town in Ferdinand Township, Dubois County DC, in the U.S.A. province of Indiana. The postal code of the region is 47532. It is a piece of the Jasper Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Ferdinand was established in 1840 by Fr. Joseph Kundek, OSB and was named after the Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria. The town was settled by for the most part German-talking individuals from focal Europe. At one time Ferdinand was known as the wooden shoe town. Toward the finish of the nineteenth century, Ferdinand contained numerous organizations, including a machine works, a block works, distillery, a few bars, and a dairy. The Ferdinand post office has been in task since one thousand eight fifty. In 1867, the Monastery of Immaculate Conception was established in Ferdinand.