Schlitz Bottling Works / Bottlehouse A

Historical marker location:

1610 North 2nd Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

( Marker is on North 2nd Street north of West Galena Street, on the right when traveling north.)

1899.

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.