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:

    “How often we read that the enemy occupied a position which commanded the old, and so the fort was evacuated! Have not the school-house and the printing-press occupied a position which commands such a fort as this?”
    —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)