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Catoctin

Catoctin is a name of an Algonquian origin that refers to a number of geographical designations in the Mid-Atlantic United States.

  • Catoctin Mountain, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Maryland and Virginia
    • Catoctin Mountain Park, a park administered by the National Park Service in Maryland
    • Catoctin Quaker Camp, a summer camp on Catoctin Mountain
    • Catoctin Trail, a hiking trail in Maryland
  • Catoctin AVA, an American Viticultural Area in Maryland
  • Catoctin County, Virginia, a proposed county in Virginia
  • Catoctin Creek (Maryland), a stream in Maryland
  • Catoctin Creek (Virginia), a stream in Virginia
  • Catoctin Creek Distilling Company, a microdistillery in Purcellville, Loudoun County, Virginia
  • Catoctin District, an election district in Loudoun County, Virginia
  • Catoctin High School, a public high school located at the foot of Catoctin Mountain in Thurmont, Maryland
  • USS Catoctin (AGC-5), a ship in the United States Navy

Usage examples of "catoctin".

Art packed into his solar electric van the hundred kilos of possessions that really mattered, locked up the house, and headed for the vacation house in the Catoctin Mountain Park.

Art felt an odd reluctance to mention to Seth his hideaway up on Catoctin Mountain.

Art, just beginning to feel that he could relax, thought again of his cabin in Catoctin Mountain Park.

At breakfast Art had confided his worry that Seth Parsigian and Oliver Guest were heading for his home in Catoctin Mountain Park, while he was forced to go to Washington.

Seth, and to all of them here at Catoctin Mountain, Oliver Guest was little more than a name and an unpleasant legend.

I arrived with Seth Parsigian at Catoctin Mountain Park, and discovered that more people were involved than I had expected.

On Catoctin Mountain, a ridge of the Appalachians that runs north to south through the western part of the state, the trees were brightening into soft yellows and golds.

She drove the Honda alone to work, heading south on the Gettysburg road, along the foot of Catoctin Mountain.

Their house stood on the lower slope of Catoctin Mountain, overlooking the town, above a sea of apple orchards.

At the moment of sundown that day, there was no sun visible, only a dying of the light behind clouds that flowed off Catoctin Mountain.

They drove home, talking about it, traveling north on the road that led to Thurmont along the foot of Catoctin Mountain.

Some of the most brutal combat in history had occurred in the rolling country around Catoctin Mountain: at the cornfield at Antietam, where every individual stalk of corn had been slashed away by bullets, and where the bodies had lain so thick a person could walk on them from one end of the cornfield to the other.

AFTER MIDNIGHT ON the water bed in the master bedroom of Jaax house on the slopes of Catoctin Mountain, Nancy and Jerry Jaax caught up on the news while their daughter, Jaime, slept beside them.

The only Site R he had ever heard about was the Alternate National Military Command Center up in the Catoctin Mountains, just north of Washington.

There was a privately run camp in the Catoctin Mountains of western Maryland that was said to be having phenomenal success.