Emerson Hall

Historical marker location:

635 Barnhill Drive, Indianapolis, Indiana

( Marker is on Hadley Drive south of West Walnut Street.)

Marker installed: 2007

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.