Historical Marker
The Springs
Historical marker location:
8538 West Baden Avenue, West Baden Springs, Indiana
( Marker is on West Baden Avenue, ΒΌ mile west of Broadway Street (Indiana Route 56), on the left when traveling west.)
Hygeia, Apollo, Neptune & Sprudel.
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.