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Definition of Housatonic
1. Noun. A river that rises in western Massachusetts and flows south through Connecticut to empty into Long Island Sound.
Group relationships: Connecticut, Constitution State, Ct, Nutmeg State, Bay State, Ma, Massachusetts, Old Colony
Generic synonyms: River
Lexicographical Neighbors of Housatonic
Literary usage of Housatonic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1878)
"THE ABORIGINES OF THE Housatonic VALLEY Comparatively few readers of general
history are aware that there once inhabited the lower Housatonic valley, ..."
2. History of Great Barrington, (Berkshire County,) Massachusetts by Charles James Taylor (1882)
"Housatonic AND ITS INDUSTRIES. At the village of Housatonic bordering on Stock-
... At this place the Housatonic River flowing : along the western base of ..."
3. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut by Samuel Orcutt (1886)
"son Sherman Boardman in writing that New Milford was the chief seat of government
for all the tribes or clans on the Housatonic river. ..."
4. An Inquiry Into the Conditions Relating to the Water-supply of the City of by Merchants' Association of New York (1900)
"TEN MILE AND Housatonic RIVERS PROJECT. thus transformed into spring-water, has
a high degree of purity and should be preferred whenever it is economical. ..."
5. The Construction of Mill Dams: Comprising Also the Building of Race and by J. Leffel & Co, Leffel, J., & Co (1874)
"The damming of the Housatonic River was a subject of discussion as long ago as
the year 1838, and at about that time a petition was presented to the ..."
6. Report of the Board of Directors of Internal Improvements of the State of by James Fowle Baldwin, James Hayward, Solomon Willard (1829)
"... prevented our prosecuting the surveys any farther on this route. From the
State line to stake No. 172 on the Housatonic route is 1221,83 chains, ..."
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