Historical Marker
Schubert Building
Historical marker location:
120 West Mifflin Street, Madison, Wisconsin
( Marker is at the intersection of West Mifflin Street and North Fairchild Street, on the right when traveling west on West Mifflin Street.)
Marker installed: 2014
Ferdinand Kronenberg, Architect. 1908.
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.