Freeman Field

Historical marker location:

Seymour, Indiana

( Marker is at the intersection of South Walnut Avenue (State Road 11) and B. Avenue East, on the right when traveling south on South Walnut Avenue.)

Marker installed: 1997

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.