Historical Marker
Badger State Shoe Factory
Historical marker location:
123 North Blount Street, Madison, Wisconsin
( Marker is at the intersection of North Blount Street and East Dayton Street on North Blount Street.)
Marker installed: 2011
Ferdinand Kronenberg, Architect. 1910.
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.