Denmark

Historical marker location:

135 Wisconsin Avenue, Denmark, Wisconsin

( Marker is on Wisconsin Avenue (County Highway KB / T) north of Kellner Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1998

Wisconsin is known as the "Badger State" because of the lead miners who first settled there in the 1820s and 1830s. These miners often lived in tunnels burrowed into hillsides, much like badgers.