Historical Marker
Howard M. Temin
Historical marker location:
680 North Park Street, Madison, Wisconsin
( Marker is on Howard Temin Lakeshore Path, 0.1 miles west of North Park Street, on the right when traveling west.)
1934-1994.
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.