Pound General Store and Post Office

Historical marker location:

2946 E. Armstrong Road, Oswego, Indiana

( Marker is at the intersection of E. Armstrong Road (County Road E500N) and N. 2nd Street, on the right when traveling west on E. Armstrong Road.)

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.