Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County. It is the second-largest city in Wisconsin by population, after Milwaukee, and the 80th-largest in the United States. The city forms the core of the Madison Metropolitan Area which includes Dane County and neighboring Iowa, Green, and Columbia counties.
Madison is named for American Founding Father and President James Madison. The city is located on the traditional land of the Ho-Chunk, and the Madison area is known as Dejope, meaning “four lakes”, or Taychopera, meaning “land of the four lakes”, in the Ho-Chunk language.
Located on an isthmus and lands surrounding four lakes—Lake Mendota, Lake Monona, Lake Kegonsa and Lake Waubesa—Madison is home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Wisconsin State Capitol, the Overture Center for the Arts, and the Henry Vilas Zoo. The city is home to an extensive network of parks and bike trails; it has the most parks and playgrounds per capita of any of the 100 largest U.S. cities.
Madison is also home to nine National Historic Landmarks, including several buildings designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, such as his 1937 Jacobs I House, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
These photos were taken by
Todd Jacobson that show street scenes of Madison in the 1980s.
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| West Mifflin Street along the Square, Madison, WI, fall 1984 |
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| Along Madison's Capitol Square, fall 1984 |
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| Bed races, UW Homecoming on State Street, Madison, fall 1984 |
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| Farmers market on the Square, Madison, WI, fall 1984 |
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| Purple rain at The Orpheum, State Street, Madison, fall 1984 |
