Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Shullsburg, WI

Shullsburg is a city in Lafayette County founded in 1827, making it one of the oldest settlements in Wisconsin and often cited as the state's third-oldest city.

Shullsburg grew out of the lead-mining ventures of Jesse W. Shull, for whom the town is named, and Henry Gratiot in the 1820s.

After the Black Hawk War, Gratiot's Grove and other nearby mining settlements consolidated into Shullsburg.

In 1841 the missionary priest Father Samuel Mazzuchelli platted the northeast section of town and named its streets after the virtues of life.

Lead from the Shullsburg diggings was part of the southwest Wisconsin lead boom whose winter dugout shelters gave miners the nickname "Badgers" — the origin of Wisconsin's Badger State identity.

The last working lead mine in the Upper Midwest Lead District closed at Shullsburg in 1979, ending more than 150 years of mining.

Shullsburg's historic Water Street Commercial District contains 34 buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The 8-acre Badger Park in the center of town was designed by Phelps Wyman and completed by the Works Progress Administration in 1942, and Jesse Shull's old mine is now preserved as the Badger Mine and Museum.

In February 1943 a collapse at the Mulcahy Mine near Shullsburg killed two miners, and a second collapse killed six of the rescuers trying to reach them.

Set in the unglaciated Driftless Area, Shullsburg later became known for its cheese industry, celebrated today at its Cheese Days festival.