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Shawnee The Shawnee are an Algonquian-speaking indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands. In the 17th century they lived in Pennsylvania, and in the 18th century they were in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, with some bands in Kentucky a ...

: ''Monnockkeseymay'') may refer to the

Monocacy River The Monocacy River () is a free-flowing left tributary to the Potomac River, which empties into the Atlantic Ocean via the Chesapeake Bay. The river is long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data ...

Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...

, USA. Monocacy may also refer to:

Other streams

Little Monocacy River The Little Monocacy River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed August 15, 2011 tributary stream of the Potomac River. Despite its name, the stream does not feed into the Mo ...

, a tributary of the Potomac River in Maryland *

Monocacy Creek (Lehigh River tributary) Monocacy Creek (pronounced muh-naw-cuh-see) is a tributary of the Lehigh River in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.Gertler, Edward. ''Keystone Canoeing'', Seneca Press, 2004. One of only 56 limestone streams in the state ...

, a tributary of the Lehigh River in Pennsylvania *

Monocacy Creek (Schuylkill River) Monocacy Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map/ref> tributary of the Schuylkill River in Berks County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Monocacy Creek joins the Schuylkill ...

, a tributary of the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania

Ships

USS Monocacy (1864) The first USS ''Monocacy'' was a sidewheel gunboat in the United States Navy. She was named for the Battle of Monocacy. ''Monocacy'' was launched by A. & W. Denmead & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, on 14 December 1864; sponsored by Miss Ellen Den ...

, the first ''Monocacy'', a gunboat launched in, and served until 1903 *

USS Monocacy (PG-20) USS ''Monocacy'' was one of two shallow draft gunboats designed for service on the upper Yangtze River over inland. It was pre-constructed at Mare Island Navy Yard in 1912 and then dismantled and shipped to Shanghai, China. She was laid down by ...

, the second ''Monocacy'', commissioned in 1914 and decommissioned in 1939 *

USS Genesee (AT-55) USS ''Genesee'' (AT-55), formerly ''Monocacy'', was a fleet tug in the U.S. Navy in World War I and World War II built in 1905. She was scuttled on 5 May 1942 at Corregidor to avoid capture. Nevertheless, she was raised by the Japanese and des ...

, originally the civilian tug ''Monocacy'' (1905)

Other

Monocacy Aqueduct The Monocacy Aqueduct — or C&O Canal Aqueduct No. 2 — is the largest aqueduct on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, crossing the Monocacy River just before it empties into the Potomac River in Frederick County, Maryland, USA. The 438 foot (133 ...

, crosses the Monocacy River near its mouth *

Monocacy National Battlefield Monocacy National Battlefield is a unit of the National Park Service, the site of the Battle of Monocacy in the American Civil War fought on July 9, 1864. The battlefield straddles the Monocacy River southeast of the city of Frederick, Maryland. ...

, memorializing the Battle of Monocacy (1864), fought near the Monocacy River *

Battle of Monocacy The Battle of Monocacy (also known as Monocacy Junction) was fought on July 9, 1864, about from Frederick, Maryland, as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864 during the American Civil War. Confederate forces under Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early defe ...

, the July 1864 Civil War battle *

Monocacy (MARC station) Monocacy is a passenger rail station on the MARC Brunswick Line between Washington, D.C. and Frederick, MD. This station is one of two stations on the Frederick extension.

named for the battlefield site * Monocacy Station, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community in Berks County, Pennsylvania {{disambiguation, geo, ship