Auburn / Cord

Historical marker location:

1503 Wayne St, Auburn, Indiana

( Marker is on Wayne Street just north of Gordon M Buehring Place, on the left when traveling north.)

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.