Historical Marker
Mercantile Building
Historical marker location:
318 North Water Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
( Marker is on North Water Street, on the right when traveling north.)
Historic Third Ward.
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.