Historical Marker
Myron "Grim" Natwick
Historical marker location:
540 Third Street South, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin
( Marker is on 2nd Street South, south of Locust Street, on the left when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 2010
August 16, 1890 October 7, 1990.
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.