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:

    “Every winter the liquid and trembling surface of the pond, which was so sensitive to every breath, and reflected every light and shadow, becomes solid to the depth of a foot or a foot and a half, so that it will support the heaviest teams, and perchance the snow covers it to an equal depth, and it is not to be distinguished from any level field. Like the marmots in the surrounding hills, it closes its eyelids and becomes dormant for three months or more.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “He stood, and heard the steeple
    Sprinkle the quarters on the morning town.
    One, two, three, four, to market-place and people
    It tossed them down.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)