U.S. Quartermaster Depot

Historical marker location:

301 Mulberry St, Jeffersonville, Indiana

( Marker can be reached from Mulberry Street south of West Maple Street, on the left when traveling south.)

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.