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Housatonic

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Housatonic may refer to one of the following.

Place names

In the United States:

  • Housatonic, Massachusetts, a census-designated place in the town of Great Barrington
  • Housatonic River, a river in western Massachusetts and western Connecticut, and the source for other uses of the word
  • Housatonic Valley, the valley and watershed of the Housatonic River

Schools

Transport

  • Housatonic Railroad, a railroad that operated independently 1836–1892, as a subsidiary 1892–1970s, and a separate company started in 1983 in western Connecticut
  • SS Georgia (1890), a German passenger liner seized by the United States during World War I, renamed Housatonic, and sunk by a German submarine
  • USS Housatonic, three United States Navy vessels, including the first ship to be sunk by a submarine

Other uses

  • Housatonic, a dialect of the Unami language
  • Housatonic (aka Housatannuck), reference to the Stockbridge Indians
  • Housatonic, an American nuclear weapon test of the Operation Dominic I and II series
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