Black Hawk

Historical marker location:

1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, Wisconsin

( Marker is on Observatory Drive, 0.1 miles east of North Charter Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1913

Sauk Chief.

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.