Historical Marker
Kilbourntown
Historical marker location:
1110 North Old World Third Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
( Marker is on North Old World Third Street, 0.1 miles south of West Juneau Street, on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 2014
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.