Mendenhall-Clay Debate / Confrontation

Historical marker location:

700 N A Street, Richmond, Indiana

( Marker is at the intersection of N A Street (U.S. 40) and 7th Street, on the right when traveling west on N A Street.)

Marker installed: 1921

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.