Historical Marker

Last Covered Bridge

Historical marker location:
Cedarburg, Wisconsin
( Marker is on Covered Bridge Road, 1 mile north of Wisconsin Highway 60,143, on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 1965

(Built 1876 – Retired 1962).

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.