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Why Is Wisconsin Called the Badger State?

Aerial America

Feb 24, 202000:03:04TV & Film

The early 19th-century discovery of lead in Wisconsin attracted miners from Cornwall. The peculiar, makeshift dwellings they slept in gave the state its nickname.

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Why Is Wisconsin Called the Badger State? is an episode from Aerial America. The early 19th-century discovery of lead in Wisconsin attracted miners from Cornwall. The peculiar, makeshift dwellings they slept in gave the state its nickname....

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Published Feb 24, 2020, 00:03:04 long, audio available.