Hiram Stores Allen

Historical marker location:

Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

( Marker is on Rushman Drive (State Highway 124) east of Bridge Street, on the right when traveling east.)

September 18, 1806 - March 6, 1886.

The first kindergarten in the United States was started in Watertown, Wisconsin in 1856 by a German immigrant named Margarethe Meyer Schurz.