Historical Marker
Losey Memorial
Historical marker location:
1407 La Crosse Street, La Crosse, Wisconsin
( Marker is on La Crosse Street (State Highway 16) 0.2 miles east of Lang Drive (State Highway 35), on the left when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 1901
Joseph W. Losey.
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.