Place
- William Henry, original name for the town of Sorel, Quebec
- Fort William Henry, the British fort built in upper New York during the French & Indian War, 1754–1763; immortalized in James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans
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“The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.”
—Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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