Fort Atkinson

Fort Atkinson is the name of several locations in the United States:

  • Fort Atkinson, Iowa, a town named after General Atkinson
  • Fort Atkinson State Preserve, 1840s U.S. Army post in Fort Atkinson, Iowa
  • Fort Atkinson (Nebraska), 1820s U.S. Army post
  • Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, a city
  • Fort Koshkonong, a Black Hawk War fort in Wisconsin sometimes called Fort Atkinson

Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or atkinson:

    “There was a deserted log camp here, apparently used the previous winter, with its “hovel” or barn for cattle.... It was a simple and strong fort erected against the cold, and suggested what valiant trencher work had been done there.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.”
    —Brooks Atkinson (1894–1984)