Jerry Wurf

Historical marker location:

(back yard of) 451 North 8th Street, Terre Haute, Indiana

( Marker can be reached from North 8th Street south of Spruce Street.)

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.