Honoring Our Heroes

Historical marker location:

1943 Ekin Avenue, New Albany, Indiana

( Memorial is on Ekin Avenue east of Thomas Street, on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 2006

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.