Lougee House

Historical marker location:

620 South Ingersoll Street, Madison, Wisconsin

( Marker is at the intersection of South Ingersoll Street and Rutledge Street, on the right when traveling south on South Ingersoll Street.)

Marker installed: 1977

1907. Claude & Starck.

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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.