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.

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.