Historical Marker

Baggage / Milk Cart

Historical marker location:
203 South Main Street, Cuba City, Wisconsin
( Marker can be reached from South Main Street (State Road 80) south of West Webster Street, on the right when traveling south.)

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.