Black Hawk War Encampment

Historical marker location:

Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin

( Marker is on County Route N, 2 miles south of Wisconsin Highway 106, on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1998

"Burnt Village".

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.