Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
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Fort Atkinson is a city in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, United States. It lies along the Rock River a few miles upstream from Lake Koshkonong. The population was 12,579 at the 2020 census. Fort Atkins
Downtown Fort Atkinson in December 2007
Rock River flooding downtown area, 2004
Replica of early 19th-century army fortification built in Fort Atkinson
Downtown Fort Atkinson
Henry Atkinson (soldier)
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Henry Atkinson was a United States Army officer serving on the western frontier during the War of 1812 and the Yellowstone expedition. With Benjamin O'Fallon, he negotiated treaties with Indigenous na
Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
…statistical area, which is, in turn, a sub-market of the larger Milwaukee–Waukesha–Racine combined statistical area. Fort Atkinson was named after General Henry Atkinson, the commander of U.S. forces in the area during the Black Hawk War (1832) against a mixed band of Sauk, Meskwaki and Kickapoo peoples. The city developed…
Colonel Henry Atkinson