Housatonic may refer to:

Place names in the United States

Housatonic, Massachusetts Housatonic is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Great Barrington in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,109 at the 2010 census. It was named ...

, a census-designated place in the town of Great Barrington * Housatonic River, 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 Housatonic Community College (HCC) is a public community college in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It part of the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities system. HCC grants associate degrees and also has certificate programs. Campus Lafayette Hall ...

, 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 hi ...

, Falls Village, Connecticut

Transport

Housatonic Railroad The Housatonic Railroad ( ) is a Class III railroad operating in southwestern New England and eastern New York. It was chartered in 1983 to operate a short section of ex-New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in northwestern Connecticut, an ...

, 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 Stockbridge may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Stockbridge, Edinburgh, a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland * Stockbridge, Hampshire * Stockbridge, West Sussex * Stockbridge Anticline, one of a series of parallel east–west trending folds in th ...

*Housatonic, an American nuclear weapon test of the

Operation Dominic I and II Operation Dominic was a series of 31 nuclear test explosions with a total yield conducted in 1962 by the United States in the Pacific. This test series was scheduled quickly, in order to respond in kind to the Soviet resumption of testing a ...

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