Historical Marker
Blackburn House
Historical marker location:
1337 Michriver Road, Indianapolis, Indiana
( Marker is on West Michigan Street west of Limestone Street, on the right when traveling east.)
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.