Mary Cable / School No. 4 Site

Historical marker location:

103 Indianapolis Cultural Trail, Indianapolis, Indiana

( Marker is on North Blackford Street north of West Michigan Street, on the right when traveling north.)

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.