Evergreen Cemetery / Earliest Evergreen Burials

Historical marker location:

Menomonie, Wisconsin

( Marker can be reached from North 5th Avenue / Evergreen Cemetery Road,, 0.6 miles north of Northeast 13th Street and Shorewood Drive.)

Marker installed: 2009

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is the oldest and largest public university in the state, and is often referred to as the "Harvard of the Midwest." It was founded in 1848, just two months after Wisconsin became a state.