Conestoga

Conestoga originally referred to the Conestoga (people), an English name for the Susquehannock people of Pennsylvania.


Places
  • Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
  • Conestoga River, a tributary of the Susquehanna River in the state of Pennsylvania
  • Conestoga Falls, one of 24 named waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania
  • Conestogo River, a river near Waterloo, Ontario (also spelled Conestoga)
  • Conestoga Parkway, a freeway in Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  • Conestoga Mall (Waterloo, Ontario), a shopping centre in Waterloo, Ontario
  • Conestogo, Ontario, a village north of Waterloo, Ontario (also spelled Conestoga)
  • Conestoga Mall (Grand Island, Nebraska)
  • Conestoga Lake (disambiguation) (also spelled Conestogo), multiple places
Vehicles
  • Conestoga wagon, a covered horse-drawn wagon
  • Conestoga (rocket), the world's first privately-funded commercial rocket, produced from Minuteman I stages
  • Conestoga (ship), a wrecked steam ship 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 Conestoga is a starship used in the failed first attempt at deep space colonization
  • In 1986's Aliens (film), the ship class of the spaceship Sulaco
  • In the 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 Traction Company, a former American regional interurban trolley operated out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
  • Conestoga, the company that manufactures the Big-Bang Cannon