Historical Marker
Belmont Hotel
Historical marker location:
101 East Mifflin Street, Madison, Wisconsin
( Marker is at the intersection of East Mifflin Street and North Pinckney Street, on the right when traveling east on East Mifflin Street.)
Marker installed: 1993
Balch and Lippert, Architects. 1923 - 1924.
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.