Jasper County Veterans Memorial

Historical marker location:

Rensselaer, Indiana

( Memorial is at the intersection of Washington Street (U.S. 231) and Van Rensselaer Street, on the left when traveling west on Washington Street.)

Indiana is the birthplace of the first black Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but grew up in Indiana, where he attended high school and college.