Winter Quarters

Winter Quarters may refer to:

  • Wallace Circus and American Circus Corporation Winter Quarters, Peru, Indiana, listed on the NRHP in Indiana
  • Winter Quarters State Historic Site, listed on the NRHP in Louisiana
  • Winter Quarters (North Omaha, Nebraska), an encampment of 2,500 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as they waited during the winter of 1846-1847 for better travelling conditions
  • Cantonment, the establishment of temporary military encampments during winter

Famous quotes containing the words winter and/or quarters:

    “How like a winter hath my absence been
    From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
    What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen,
    What old December’s bareness everywhere!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Before I finally went into winter quarters in November, I used to resort to the north- east side of Walden, which the sun, reflected from the pitch pine woods and the stony shore, made the fireside of the pond; it is so much pleasanter and wholesomer to be warmed by the sun while you can be, than by an artificial fire. I thus warmed myself by the still glowing embers which the summer, like a departed hunter, had left.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)