Klose Cottage

Historical marker location:

748 Jenifer Street., Madison, Wisconsin

( Marker is on Jenifer Street, 0.1 miles west of South Livingston Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1977

1870.

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.