Conestoga
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Conestoga may refer to:
Places:
- Conestoga Township, Pennsylvania
- Conestoga River, a tributary of the Susquehanna River in the state of Pennsylvania
- Conestoga Parkway, a freeway in Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
- Conestoga Mall, a shopping centre in Waterloo, Ontario
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
In fiction:
- In Star Trek, the Conestoga is a starship used in the failed first attempt at deep space colonization
- In the 1986 film Aliens, the ship class of the spaceship Sulaco.
- In the game Outpost 2, the name of a starship presented in the game
Other uses:
- Conestoga (people), an English name for the Susquehannock people of Pennsylvania
- 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, the company that manufactures the Big-Bang Cannon