Historical Markers in
Rock County, Wisconsin

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Afton Community Church Beckman Mill Beloit College Black Hawk at Turtle Village / The U.S. Military at Turtle Village Black Hawk War Burr Robbins Circus CCC Veterans Memorial Bridge First Congregational Church First State Fair Home of Governor Harvey How-Beckman Mill In the Name of God. Amen. James E. Croft Janesville Tank Company Jefferson Prairie Settlement La Prairie Grange Hall Milton College 18441982 / Milton College Historic District Milton House Rasey House Rock River Industry Route of Abraham Lincoln Roy Chapman Andrews Soldier of The American Revolution Storrs Lake Milton The Black Hawk War / Black Hawk's Grove The Crossing The Medal of Honor The Old Clinton Water Tower The SkavlemWilliams Log Cabin Village of Cooksville / Village of Waucoma Wisconsin's First Aviator Wisconsin's Tobacco Land

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.

~ Wisconsin random facts