1827

Historical marker location:

7600 South Burlington Drive, Muncie, Indiana

( Marker is on South Burlington Drive, 0.2 miles north of County Road 500, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1927

[The First School House in Delaware County].

Indiana is the birthplace of the first black Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but grew up in Indiana, where he attended high school and college.