When was the first free kindergarden opened?

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When was the first free kindergarden opened?

Answer 1

The first publicly financed kindergarten in the United States was established in St. Louis in 1873 by Susan Blow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindergarte...

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Answer 2

"Friedrich Froebel officially opened the first kindergarten on 28 June 1840, to mark the four hundredth anniversary of Gutenberg's discovery of movable type. Froebel created the name Kindergarten for the Play and Activity Institute, which he had founded in 1837 in the village of Bad Blankenburg, in the small principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Thuringia, Germany. The first kindergarten in the United States was founded in Watertown, Wisconsin by Margarethe (Margaretta) Meyer Schurz (wife of activist/statesman Carl Schurz). Margarethe Schurz initially taught five children in her home (including her own daughter Agatha) in Watertown, Wisconsin, but was so successful that she opened her first kindergarten in America in 1856. While Schurz's first kindergarten was German-language, she also advocated the establishment of English-language kindergartens. The first English-language kindergarten in America was founded in 1859 in Boston by Elizabeth Peabody, who received her first exposure to a kindergarten from Margaretta Schurz in Watertown. Margaretta Schurz’s older sister Bertha Meyer Ronge opened Infant Gardens in London (1851), Manchester (1859) and Leeds (1860). The first publicly financed kindergarten in the United States was established in St. Louis in 1873 by Susan Blow." (from Wikipedia)

Kindergartens were initially for poor children and thereby free.

Below is a link to the history of kindergartens (which, by the way, are free in public education in the USA).

I wasn't sure if you meant free in the US or in the history of kindergartens since their inception

Answer 3

I think that it's free now at a public school. I'm not for sure I live in N. Carolina...