Kile Oak

Historical marker location:

5939 E Beechwood Ave., Indianapolis, Indiana

( Marker is on Beechwood Ave., on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1976

Bicentennial Tree.

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.