Housatonic
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Place names

In the United States:
  • The Housatonic River
    Housatonic River
    The Housatonic River is a river, approximately long, in western Massachusetts and western Connecticut in the United States. It flows south to southeast, and drains about of southwestern New England into Long Island Sound...

    , a river in western Massachusetts and western Connecticut, and the source for other uses of the word
  • Housatonic, Massachusetts
    Housatonic, Massachusetts
    Housatonic is a village and census-designated place in the town of Great Barrington in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,335 at the 2000 census....

    , a census-designated place in the town of Great Barrington
  • Housatonic Railroad
    Housatonic Railroad
    The Housatonic Railroad is a Class III railroad operating in southwestern New England. It was chartered in 1983 to operate a short section of ex-New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in northwestern Connecticut, and has since expanded north and south, as well as west into New York State.The...

    , a railroad that operated 1836–1892, and a separate company started in 1983 in western Connecticut
  • Housatonic Valley
    Housatonic Valley
    The Housatonic Valley is a geographic region of Connecticut and Massachusetts in the United States, associated with the valley and watershed of the Housatonic River....

    , the valley and watershed of the Housatonic River

Schools

  • Housatonic Community College
    Housatonic Community College
    Housatonic Community College is a two-year public college located in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It is currently one of the twelve colleges in the Connecticut Community Colleges system...

     in southern Connecticut
  • Housatonic Valley Regional High School
    Housatonic Valley Regional High School
    Housatonic Valley Regional High School is a regional high school in the town of Falls Village, Connecticut in Litchfield County. The school currently has a student population of approximately 590 in grades 9 to 12...

    , Falls Village, Connecticut

Ships

  • USS Housatonic
    USS Housatonic
    Three ships of the United States Navy have been named Housatonic after the Housatonic River., was launched 20 November 1861 and sunk by the Confederate submarine H. L...

    , three United States Navy vessels, including the first ship to be sunk by a submarine
  • SS Georgia (1890)
    SS Georgia (1890)
    SS Georgia was a passenger ship in the North Atlantic from 1891 to 1917.Built by Barclay, Curle & Co, Glasgow, she was a 3,143 gross ton ship, length 331ft x beam 41.1ft, with a straight stem, one funnel, two masts, a single screw and a speed of 11 knots...

    , a German passenger liner seized by the United States during World War I, renamed Housatonic, and sunk by a German submarine

Other uses

  • A dialect of the Unami language
    Unami language
    Unami is an extinct Algonquian language formerly spoken by Lenape people in what is now the lower Hudson Valley area and New York Harbor area, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, but later in Ontario and Oklahoma. It is one of the two Delaware languages, the other being Munsee...

  • An American nuclear weapon test of the Operation Dominic I and II
    Operation Dominic I and II
    Operation Dominic was a series of 105 nuclear test explosions conducted in 1962 by the United States. Those conducted in the Pacific are sometimes called Dominic I. The blasts in Nevada are known as Dominic II. This test series was scheduled quickly, in order to respond in kind to the Soviet...

    series
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