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, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lancaster County
• 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

Education

• Conestoga High School, a public high school in Devon-Berwyn, Pennsylvania
• Conestoga Middle School, a public 6-8 school in the Beaverton School District
• Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning is a public college located in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

In fiction

• In Star Trek, the USS Conestoga is a starship used in the failed first attempt at deep space colonization
• In 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