Historical Marker
Newburgh Captured
Historical marker location:
22 West Water Street, Newburgh, Indiana
( Memorial is on West Water Street, on the left when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 1981
July 18, 1862.
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.