Housatonic

Housatonic may refer to one of the following.

Place names

In the United States:

• The Housatonic River, a river in western Massachusetts and western Connecticut, and the source for other uses of the word
• Housatonic, Massachusetts, a census-designated place in the town of Great Barrington
• Housatonic Railroad, a railroad that operated independently 1836–1892, as a subsidiary 1892–1970s, and a separate company started in 1983 in western Connecticut
• Housatonic Valley, the valley and watershed of the Housatonic River

Schools

• Housatonic Community College in southern Connecticut
• Housatonic Valley Regional High School, Falls Village, Connecticut

Ships

• USS Housatonic, three United States Navy vessels, including the first ship to be sunk by a submarine
• SS Georgia (1890), 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
• An American nuclear weapon test of the Operation Dominic I and II series