Haney's Tavern

Historical marker location:

Cross Plains, Wisconsin

( Marker is on County Road P, 0.3 miles south of U.S. 14, on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1973

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.