Calhoun

Historical marker location:

New Berlin, Wisconsin

( Marker is on South Calhoun Road, ½ mile south of West Greenfield Avenue (Wisconsin Highway 59), on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2003

The first European to explore Wisconsin was Jean Nicolet, a French explorer who arrived in 1634. He was looking for a water route to Asia but instead encountered the Menominee Indians near Green Bay.