Packers Practice Fields

Historical marker location:

Green Bay, Wisconsin

( Marker is on North Baird Street south of Main Street (U.S. 141), on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2012

Packers Heritage Trail. Packing Plant Spur.

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.