Historical Marker
Early Settlers
Historical marker location:
300 West Broadway Street, Princeton, Indiana
( Marker is at the intersection of West Broadway Street (Indiana Route 65) and North West Street, on the left when traveling east on West Broadway Street.)
1789 1814.
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.