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The Conestoga wagon, also simply known as the Conestoga, is an obsolete transport vehicle that was used exclusively in North America, primarily the United States, mainly from the early 18th to mid-19th centuries. It is a heavy and large horse-drawn vehicle which, while largely elusive in origin, originated most likely from German immigrants of ...
Conestoga Connected is a weekly half-hour newsmagazine all about Conestoga College student programs, news, events, innovations, sports, life off-campus and alumni. It is created and produced by second-year Broadcast Television students. Conestoga College Digital [49] TV (CCDTV) is an online TV station run by the School of Creative Industries ...
Conestoga River. The Conestoga River (Pennsylvania German: Kanneschtooge Rewwer), also referred to as Conestoga Creek (Pennsylvania German: Kanneschtooge Grick), is a 61.6-mile-long (99.1 km) [4] tributary of the Susquehanna River flowing through the center of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.
The Susquehannock, also known as the Conestoga, Minquas, and Andaste, were an Iroquoian people who lived in the lower Susquehanna River watershed in what is now Pennsylvania. Their name means “people of the muddy river.”. The Susquehannock were first described by John Smith, who explored the upper reaches of Chesapeake Bay in 1608.
Conestoga is in southwestern Lancaster County, in the eastern part of Conestoga Township. It is situated between the Conestoga River to the northwest and Pequea Creek to the southeast. It is 7 miles (11 km) south-southwest of Lancaster, the county seat, and 3 miles (5 km) northeast of the Susquehanna River.
The Conestoga was a launch vehicle design funded by Space Services Inc. of America (SSIA) of Houston, Texas. Conestoga originally consisted of surplus LGM-30 Minuteman stages with additional strap-on boosters, as required for larger payloads. It was the world's first privately funded commercial rocket, but was launched only three times (once as ...
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 ...
High school soccer rankings. Council Rock North was also one of five area schools to crack the state rankings. Central Bucks South, which lost the Class 4A state title game to Conestoga last fall ...