Fort Atkinson State Preserve Maps

Fort Atkinson, IA

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Fort Atkinson State Preserve Description

The story of Fort Atkinson is not the stuff of which legends are made. No famous battles were fought here. No glorious victories or ignoble defeats occurred in its vicinity. No great decisions were made within its walls. In this way, the story of Fort Atkinson is like that of most of the army posts in the upper Mississippi Valley. Fort AtkinsonFort Atkinson was built to keep the Winnebago Indians on Neutral Ground (a 40-mile-wide strip of land established by the Treaty of 1830) after their removal from Wisconsin in 1840, and to provide protection for them from the Sioux, Sauk, Fox and from wh

Coordinates
: 43.146, -91.941
Area
: 5 acres (0.02 km²)
Official Link
: Fort Atkinson State Preserve

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