Alexander McClure

Historical marker location:

Seymour, Indiana

( Marker is on North Broadway Street (State Road 11) south of East 2nd Street, on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2008

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.