Union Hotel

Historical marker location:

200 North Broadway, De Pere, Wisconsin

( Marker is at the intersection of Broadway (State Highway 57) and James Street, on the right when traveling north on Broadway.)

Packers Heritage Trail.

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.