Conestoga
Conestoga originally referred to the Conestoga people, an English name for the Susquehannock people of Pennsylvania.
- Places
- Conestogo, Ontario, a village north of Waterloo, Ontario (also spelled Conestoga)
- Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
- Conestoga Lake, Nebraska, United States
- Conestogo Lake, Ontario, Canada
- Conestoga Mall (Grand Island, Nebraska)
- Conestoga Mall (Waterloo, Ontario), a shopping centre in Waterloo, Ontario
- Conestoga Parkway, a freeway in Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
- Conestoga River, a tributary of the Susquehanna River in the state of Pennsylvania
- Conestogo River, a river near Waterloo, Ontario
- Vehicles
- Conestoga wagon, a covered horse-drawn wagon
- USS Conestoga, any of the three United States Navy ships named after the wagon
- 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.
- Conestoga (rocket), the world's first privately funded commercial rocket, produced from Minuteman I stages
- Conestoga (ship), a wrecked steamship in the Thousand Islands which is a popular Scuba diving site
- C-93 Conestoga, a cargo aircraft
- AL-60C-5 Conestoga, a variant of the Aermacchi AL.60 utility aircraft
- Schools
- Conestoga High School, a public high school in Devon-Berwyn, Pennsylvania
- Conestoga College, based in Kitchener, Ontario in Canada
- Conestoga Middle School, a public 6-8 school in the Beaverton School District
- In fiction
- In Star Trek, the USS Conestoga is a starship used in the failed first attempt at deep space colonization
- In the sequel Aliens (1986), the ship class of the spaceship USS Sulaco
- In the video game Outpost 2, the name of a starship presented in the game
- Other
- Conestoga (convention), an annual literary science fiction convention held in Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Conestoga Church of the Brethren, a congregation related to Conrad Beissel at the Ephrata Cloister
- Conestoga Cigar, also known as a "stogie"
- Conestoga Massacre, Pennsylvania by the Paxton Boys in 1763
- Conestoga Traction Company, a former American regional interurban trolley operated out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Conestoga, the company that manufactures the Big-Bang Cannon
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