Housatonic may refer to:

Place names in the United States

* Housatonic, Massachusetts, a census-designated place in the town of Great Barrington *

Housatonic River The Housatonic River ( ) is a river, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed April 1, 2011 in western Massachusetts and western Connecticut in the United S ...

, a river in western Massachusetts and western Connecticut, and the source for other uses of the word *

Housatonic Valley The Housatonic River ( ) is a river, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed April 1, 2011 in western Massachusetts and western Connecticut in the United S ...

, the valley and watershed of the Housatonic River

Schools

* Housatonic Community College, in Bridgeport, Connecticut *

Housatonic Valley Regional High School Housatonic Valley Regional High School (HVRHS) is a public high school in Falls Village, Connecticut, United States. It was established in 1939 as a result of a special act of the Connecticut General Assembly in 1937. It is the first regional hig ...

, Falls Village, Connecticut

Transport

* Housatonic Railroad, a railroad that operated independently 1836–1892, as a subsidiary 1892–1970s, and a separate company started in 1983 in western Connecticut * SS ''Georgia'' (1890), a German passenger liner seized by the United States during World War I, renamed ''Housatonic'', and sunk by a German submarine * USS ''Housatonic'', three United States Navy vessels, including the first ship to be sunk by a submarine

Other uses

*Housatonic, a dialect of the

Unami language Unami ( del, Wënami èlixsuwakàn) was an Algonquian language spoken by the Lenape people in the late 17th century and the early 18th century, in what then was (or later became) the southern two-thirds of New Jersey, southeastern Pennsylvania ...

*Housatonic (aka Housatannuck), reference to the Stockbridge Indians *Housatonic, an American nuclear weapon test of the Operation Dominic I and II series {{disambig, geo, ship