Veterans Memorial

Historical marker location:

W25757 U.S. Highway 10, Eleva, Wisconsin

( Memorial is on Mondovi Street East (U.S. 10) 0.4 miles east of Main Street (State Highway 93), on the right when traveling east.)

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.