Bailey's Landing

Historical marker location:

131 Broadway, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin

( Marker is on Broadway Street (State Highway 16/23) west of River Road, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1979

(A Landmark Store).

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.