Lyles Station

Historical marker location:

Princeton, Indiana

( Marker is on County Road 500W south of Road 100N, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2002

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.