You wouldn’t recognize Badger now. All the buildings have been removed and the soil cleaned.
Wow! All those little buildings with the silver ramps for fast exit in the event of explosion. And the deer all leaped the fence into the plant around Thanksgiving because there they had sanctuary from the hunters during deer season. I was with a Chicago insulation company that was insulating some tanks as part of an expansion. We used insulators out of the Madison local. Yes, it looked to have been a nice place to come of age. I had a gang of 30 friends up for my farewell party there, and we cross-country skiied at Blackhawk Ridge, and created a cross between soccer and hockey on Lake Delton fueled by Bloody Marys. I remember taking a cruise over to Spring Green to see Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesan East, and it was boarded up. I removed a 2X4 and “broke in” to tour the place. It was as if a tragedy of some sort had happened and everyone evacuated years prior, as architectural drawings etc were strewn everywhere. I spent a couple of hours in that incredible building (I hail from Oak Park and so had long admired Wright’s work). I returned for a vist about 20 years later and what an amazing transformation had taken place.