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In 1967, the college was founded as Conestoga College of Applied Arts and Technology by the government of Ontario to grant diplomas and certificates in career-related, skills-oriented programs. The college started to offer degree programs in B.Eng. Mechanical Systems Engineering [3] and B.A. Tech Architecture - Project and Facility Management ...
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 ...
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 ...
GNIS feature ID. 1172302 [3] Conestoga (Pennsylvania German: Kanneschtooge) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 1,163. [4] The Conestoga post office serves ZIP code 17516.
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 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.
Conestoga High School. Conestoga High School, located in Tredyffrin Township, [4] Pennsylvania, is the only upper secondary school in the Tredyffrin/Easttown School District. It has a Berwyn post office address, [5] though it is not in the Berwyn census-designated place. [6]
Paxton Boys. The Paxton Boys, also known as the Paxtang Boys or the Paxton Rangers, were a mob of settlers that murdered 20 unarmed Conestoga in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in December 1763. This group of vigilantes from Lancaster and Cumberland counties formed in 1763 to defend themselves from Indigenous attacks during Pontiac's War.