Bird Effigy Mound

Historical marker location:

Madison, Wisconsin

( Marker can be reached from Burrows Road, 0.1 miles west of Sherman Avenue, on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1975

500-1000 A.D.

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.