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)

    “Love is the victim’s response to the rapist.”
    —Ti-Grace Atkinson (b. 1938?)