Belle Boyd

Historical marker location:

Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin

( Marker can be reached from Broadway Road (State Highway 23) 0.2 miles east of State Highway 13/16, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1976

Kilbourn Landmark.

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.