Historical Marker
Prohibition Years
Historical marker location:
1543 North 2nd Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
( Marker is on North 2nd Street north of West Cherry Street, on the left when traveling north.)
1920-1933.
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.