Milwaukee Road Depot

Historical marker location:

Madison, Wisconsin

( Marker is on West Washington Avenue, 0.1 miles west of South Bedford Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2012

Frost and Granger, Architects. 1903.

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.