James F. D. Lanier

Historical marker location:

511 West First Street, Madison, Indiana

( Marker is at the intersection of Elm Street and West First Street, on the right when traveling south on Elm Street.)

Marker installed: 1963

1800-1881.

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.