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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 wagon. Conestoga wagon, National Museum of American History. 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 ...
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.
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.
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 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 ...
CRAworld.com. Conestoga-Rovers & Associates (CRA) is a group of companies that provides engineering, environmental consulting, construction, and information technology (IT) services. On July 2, 2014, CRA became a division of the GHD Group. [1] Its current overall headquarters is located in Waterloo, Ontario, however the firm has locations in ...