Category:Conestoga wagons

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See also categories: Conestoga semi-trailer trucks and Prairie Schooners.

Smithsonian — "Pennsylvania Germans near the Conestoga River first made Conestoga wagons around 1750 to haul freight. By the 1810s, improved roads to Pittsburgh and Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia) stimulated trade between Philadelphia, Baltimore, and settlers near the Ohio River. Wagoners with horse-drawn Conestoga wagons carried supplies and finished goods westward on three- to four-week journeys and returned with flour, whiskey, tobacco, and other products. The Conestoga wagon’s curved shape shifted cargo toward the center and prevented items from sliding on mountain slopes. Railroads replaced Conestoga wagons by the 1850s,

Conestoga wagon

type of heavy covered wagon

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"but the prairie schooner, a lightweight, flat variant, carried pioneer settlers from Missouri to the West Coast."

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This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.

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Conestoga wagon (B & O Railroad Museum)‎ (9 F)

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Conestoga Wagon (National Museum of American History)‎ (4 F)

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Conestoga wagon (on the Oregon Trail)‎ (6 F)
Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar‎ (25 F)

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Conestoga wagon (Pittsburgh)‎ (5 F)

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Studebaker Conestoga wagons‎ (1 F)

Media in category "Conestoga wagons"

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"Conestoga Wagons" wayside at Cimarron National Grassland (2bf9d57d52b142e99d18f57517bb3724).JPG 2,048 × 1,536; 698 KB
"Conestoga Wagons" wayside at Cimarron National Grassland (c5ef346bdc944cd699b338063bb4b874).JPG 640 × 424; 82 KB
A historic conestoga wagon LCCN2012645747.jpg 1,536 × 1,115; 269 KB
America's Highways 1776–1976 - Conestoga wagon.jpg 2,195 × 635; 1.08 MB
Conestoga Wagon - Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago) - DSC06717.JPG 5,472 × 3,648; 12.77 MB
Conestoga Wagon 1883 - 512px.jpg 512 × 301; 41 KB
Conestoga Wagon 1883.jpg 3,422 × 2,012; 5.27 MB
Conestoga Wagon, made in Conestoga, Pennsylvania, 1840 - Luray Caverns Car and Carriage Museum - Luray, Virginia - DSC01149.jpg 5,472 × 3,648; 11.16 MB
Conestoga wagon.jpg 2,778 × 2,736; 4.08 MB
Historic highways of America (Volume 11) - III.png 2,537 × 1,509; 1.97 MB
Main St. - Petersburg (Wagon train on street, church steeple... (3110008945).jpg 760 × 598; 192 KB
PSM V59 D028 Model of the conestoga wagon.png 1,565 × 515; 123 KB
The Childrens Museum of Indianapolis - Conestoga wagon.jpg 526 × 786; 163 KB
Ulster American Folk-park - geograph.org.uk - 543840.jpg 640 × 480; 60 KB

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