Historical Marker
Wootton - Mead House
Historical marker location:
120 West Gorham Street, Madison, Wisconsin
( Marker can be reached from West Gorham Street, 0.1 miles west of North Carroll Street, on the right when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 1984
1907.
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.