Meshekinnoquah

Historical marker location:

664 Lawton Place, Fort Wayne, Indiana

( Marker is on Lawton Place, 0.1 miles east of Spy Run Avenue, on the right when traveling east.)

(Chief Little Turtle).

The first public school system in the United States was established in Indiana in 1852. The state was also home to the first kindergarten in the United States, which was founded in 1873 by a German immigrant named Margarethe Schurz.