Historical Marker
Chief Tecumseh
Historical marker location:
17 Hart Street, Vincennes, Indiana
( Marker is on Hart Street west of 1st Street, on the left when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 2009
1768 - 1813.
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.