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In 1871 Blow traveled to New York, where she spent a year being trained at the New York Normal Training Kindergarten, operated by Fröbel devotee Maria Kraus-Boelté.Blow returned to St. Louis in 1873 and opened the nation's first public kindergarten in Des Peres School in Carondelet, [2] which by then had been annexed by the City of St. Louis.
On May 2, 1929, a memorial tablet was dedicated in Watertown, Wisconsin, a few feet from the site of the building where she founded the first kindergarten in America. "In memory of Mrs. Carl Schurz (Margarethe Meyer Schurz) Aug. 27, 1833 -- March 15, 1876, who established on this site the first kindergarten in America, 1856."
The First Kindergarten in Watertown, Wisconsin, is the building that housed the first kindergarten in the United States, opened in 1856. [1] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 [ 2 ] [ 3 ] for its significance to the history of education.
The first public school kindergarten in the state of Wisconsin was established in Manitowoc by Charles F. Viebahn and Emily Richter.
He was educated in the gymnasium at Zürich, studied in Medical College of Louisville, Kentucky, and received a Ph.D. from Ohio University in 1885. He taught natural science in the Louisville high schools from 1856 to 1865, and then directed the German and English Academy from 1865 to 1873, where he built the first kindergarten classroom in the United States.
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (May 16, 1804 – January 3, 1894) was an American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States. Long before most educators, Peabody embraced the premise that children's play has intrinsic developmental and educational value.
Louise Plessner Pollock (1833 in Germany – July 24, 1901, at Skyland, Virginia) was an influential early advocate of the kindergarten movement in 19th-century America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Born Louise Caroline Frederica Augusta Victoria Wilhelmina von Pless ( Anglicized as Plessner ), she married in 1850 in Dresden to George Henry Pollock, who was ...
The first publicly financed kindergarten in the US was established in St. Louis in 1873 by Susan Blow. Canada's first private kindergarten was opened by the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, in 1870. By the end of the decade, they were common in large Canadian towns and cities.