Veterans Memorial

Historical marker location:

700 Main Street, Tell City, Indiana

( Memorial is on Main Street north of Mozart Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1991

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.