Fine Meadows

Historical marker location:

Menomonie, Wisconsin

( Marker can be reached from Interstate 94 at milepost 43,, 2.6 miles west of County Highway B, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1988

Where... Droves of Buffaloes and Elks were Feeding. Jonathan Carver, 1767.

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.