Jefferson Davis

Historical marker location:

413 South Beaumont Road, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin

( Marker is on South Beaumont Road south of West Cass Street, on the right when traveling south.)

1808 1889.

The first European to explore Wisconsin was Jean Nicolet, a French explorer who arrived in 1634. He was looking for a water route to Asia but instead encountered the Menominee Indians near Green Bay.