Bill Cantrell Memorial Race Course

Historical marker location:

114 East Vaughn Drive, Madison, Indiana

( Marker is on East Vaughn Drive just west of Mulberry Street, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1996

Site of the Madison Regatta Since 1911.

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.