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7 unusual facts about Fort Atkinson


126th Field Artillery Regiment

:Former 1st Cavalry reconstituted in the Wisconsin National Guard and partially organized between October 1919 and March 1921 with Troops A, and B at Milwaukee; Troop E at Kenosha, Troop G at Watertown, Troop H at Fort Atkinson; and Troop L at Eau Claire.

Fort Atkinson

Fort Koshkonong, a Black Hawk War fort in Wisconsin sometimes called Fort Atkinson

Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin

Robert J. Shelby - U.S. District Court judge - author of precedent-making decision on gay marriage.

George H. Crosman

During the 1820s, he served at various posts on the frontier with the 6th Infantry including Fort Mackinac in Michigan, Fort Atkinson in Iowa, and Jefferson Barracks in Missouri.

Washington County, Nebraska

As a result of this Council, Fort Atkinson was established in 1819 and served as a key midwestern outpost until its abandonment in 1827.

William Abbe

Abbe also held the government contracts for the delivery of meat and provisions to the Winnebago Agency at Fort Atkinson and to the troops at Prairie du Chien in Wisconsin.

William Juneau

He began his coaching career in 1903 at Fort Atkinson High School in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.


Charlie Grimm

After his retirement from baseball, he lived adjacent to Lake Koshkonong, near Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.

Joseph Crétin

For over eleven years, he exercised his priestly ministry in these new, unopened regions, dividing his time chiefly between Dubuque, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and the Winnebago Indians in the neighborhood of Fort Atkinson, in Winneshiek County, Iowa.


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