B. B. Clarke House

Historical marker location:

1150 Spaight Street, Madison, Wisconsin

( Marker can be reached from the intersection of Spaight Street and South Few Street, on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1981

Claude and Starck. 1899.

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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.