Wilbur and Orville Wright

Historical marker location:

702 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Indiana

( Marker is on West Walnut Street west of North Illinois Street, in the median.)

(WW: April 16, 1867 - May 30, 1912 | OW: August 19, 1871 - January 30, 1948).

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.