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Conestoga has one, two, three, or four-year programs, as well as apprenticeship training programs. There are also many options available to students including four-year degrees [44] in Mechanical Systems Engineering, Integrated Telecommunications and Computer Technology, Architecture, Health Informatics or the International Business Management degree which started in the fall of 2006.
Conestoga wagon, a covered horse-drawn wagon . USS Conestoga, any of the three United States Navy ships named after the wagon; Conestoga (truck), a truck or truck trailer equipped with a soft roof and sides supported by a removable frame designed to protect cargo during transport similar to a closed truck while allowing by removal of the roof and sides for loading by forklift or crane, so ...
At the 2000 census, there were 3,749 people, 1,374 households, and 1,067 families living in the township.The population density was 256.3 people per square mile (99.0 people/km 2).
Conestoga Town is an historic archaeological site memorializing the Native American tribal village which stood on the site from the late 17th into the mid-18th-century; it is located at what is now Manor Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
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.
Conestoga River in Lancaster. The stream was named after the Iroquoian-speaking Susquehannock people. In the eighteenth century, British colonists in Pennsylvania called them the Conestoga, referring to the river, and to the village the Susquehannock established about 1690.
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.
The Susquehannock were an Iroquoian speaking people. Little of the language has been preserved. The chief source is the Vocabula Mahakuassica compiled by the Swedish missionary Johannes Campanius during the 1640s.