" Let There Be Light "

Historical marker location:

Vincennes, Indiana

( Marker is on North 1st Street east of Buntin Street, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1975

Indiana Territory's First Newspaper.

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.