Sub-Continental Divide

Historical marker location:

Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin

( Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (State Highway 74) and Westchester Drive, on the right when traveling west on Main Street.)

Marker installed: 1959

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.