Conestoga originally referred to the
Conestoga people
The Susquehannock people, also called the Conestoga by some English settlers or Andastes were Iroquoian Native Americans who lived in areas adjacent to the Susquehanna River and its tributaries, ranging from its upper reaches in the southern pa ...
, an English name for the Susquehannock people of Pennsylvania.
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Conestogo, Ontario
Conestogo is a community in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in the township of Woolwich in Waterloo Region. The population in 2016 was 1,270.
The community is located at the junction of the Grand and Conestogo Rivers. Conestogo is a te ...
, a village north of Waterloo, Ontario (also spelled Conestoga)
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Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Conestoga Township is a township in west central Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. At the 2020 census the population was 3,922.
History
Conestoga Township was formed in 1712 as part of Chester County. Lancaster County was not formed ...
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Conestoga Lake
Conestoga Lake is a lake in Lancaster County, Nebraska, Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States of America. It is owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, with a recreation area.
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Lakes of Nebraska
Bodies of water of Lanca ...
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Conestogo Lake
Conestogo Lake is an Reservoir, artificial lake on the Conestogo River in Wellington County, Ontario, Wellington County in Southwestern Ontario, Southwestern Ontario, Canada. It is a reservoir with a flood control dam.
History
Flood control me ...
, Ontario, Canada
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Conestoga Mall (Grand Island, Nebraska)
Conestoga Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Grand Island, Nebraska. It was opened in 1974 and is owned by Namdar Realty Group. The mall's anchor store is Dillard's. There are 3 vacant anchor stores that were once Sears, Younkers and JCPenney. B ...
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Conestoga Mall (Waterloo, Ontario)
Conestoga Mall is a shopping mall located at 550 King Street North in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Located at King Street's interchange with the Conestoga Parkway, it is the largest shopping centre in Waterloo, and third-largest in Waterloo Regi ...
, a shopping centre in Waterloo, Ontario
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Conestoga Parkway
The Conestoga Parkway, officially the Kitchener–Waterloo Expressway,
is a controlled-access highway
A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress ...
, a freeway in Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
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Conestoga River
The Conestoga River, also referred to as Conestoga Creek, is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed August 8, 2011 tributary of the Susquehanna River flowing through the cente ...
, a tributary of the Susquehanna River in the state of Pennsylvania
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Conestogo River
The Conestogo River is a river in Waterloo Region and Wellington County in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. The river was named by Mennonite settlers after the Conestoga River in Pennsylvania. In the 1800s there were several different spellings o ...
, a river near Waterloo, Ontario
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Conestoga wagon, a covered horse-drawn wagon
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USS Conestoga, any of the three
United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...
ships named after the wagon
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Conestoga (truck), a truck or truck trailer equipped with a soft roof and sides supported by a removable frame designed to protect cargo during transport similar to a closed truck while allowing by removal of the roof and sides for loading by forklift or crane, so named due to the resemblance to a Conestoga wagon.
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Conestoga (rocket), the world's first privately funded commercial rocket, produced from Minuteman I stages
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Conestoga (ship), a wrecked steamship in the Thousand Islands which is a popular Scuba diving site
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C-93 Conestoga, a cargo aircraft
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AL-60C-5 Conestoga
The Aermacchi AL-60 is a light civil utility aircraft of the late 1950s and early 1960s, originally designed by Al Mooney of Lockheed in the United States. After the company decided not to build the aircraft in the US, it was manufactured in s ...
, a variant of the Aermacchi AL.60 utility aircraft
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Conestoga High School
Conestoga High School, located in Tredyffrin Township, Pennsylvania, is the only upper secondary school in the Tredyffrin/Easttown School District. It has a Berwyn post office address, though it is not in the Berwyn census-designated place.
Co ...
, a public high school in Devon-Berwyn, Pennsylvania
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Conestoga Middle School
The Beaverton School District is a school district in and around Beaverton, Oregon, United States. It serves students throughout Beaverton, Hillsboro, Aloha, and unincorporated neighborhoods of Portland, OR. The Beaverton Elementary School Distri ...
, a public 6-8 school in the Beaverton School District
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Conestoga College
Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning is a public college located in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1967, Conestoga serves approximately 23,000 registered students through campuses and training centres in ...
Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning is a public college located in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
;In fiction:
*In ''
Star Trek
''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon. The franchise has expanded into vari ...
'', the USS ''Conestoga'' is a starship used in the failed first attempt at deep space colonization
*In the sequel ''
Aliens
Alien primarily refers to:
* Alien (law), a person in a country who is not a national of that country
** Enemy alien, the above in times of war
* Extraterrestrial life, life which does not originate from Earth
** Specifically, intelligent extrate ...
'' (1986), the ship class of the spaceship
USS ''Sulaco''
*In the video game ''
Outpost 2
''Outpost 2: Divided Destiny'' is a real-time strategy computer game developed by Dynamix, released in 1997 by Sierra Entertainment. It reuses and refines some of the concepts from the original '' Outpost'', but there is no direct continuity betw ...
'', the name of a starship presented in the game
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Conestoga (convention)
Conestoga was a literary science fiction and fantasy convention held annually in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 1997 through 2010, after which it was suspended for financial and logistical reasons. The convention at first was designated by the year in whic ...
, an annual literary science fiction convention held in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Conestoga Church of the Brethren, a congregation related to
Conrad Beissel at the Ephrata Cloister
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Conestoga Cigar, also known as a "stogie"
* Conestoga Massacre, Pennsylvania by the
Paxton Boys in 1763
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Conestoga Traction Company
Conestoga Traction, later Conestoga Transportation Company, was a classic American regional interurban trolley that operated seven routes 1899 to 1946 radiating spoke-like from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to numerous neighboring farm villages and tow ...
, a former American regional interurban trolley operated out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
*Conestoga, the company that manufactures the
Big-Bang Cannon
The Big-Bang Cannon is an American toy cannon first manufactured in the early 20th-century. Numerous consumer fireworks injuries convinced a physics professor at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to patent a "Gas Gun" in 1907, and the ...
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