Koffel Building

Historical marker location:

4 North Main Street, Knox, Indiana

( Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street and East Lake Street, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street.)

Marker installed: 2015

1891.

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.