Cascade Falls

Historical marker location:

Osceola, Wisconsin

( Marker is on North Cascade Street (State Highway 35) north of Osceola Road (State Highway 243), on the left when traveling north.)

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.