The Pioneer Valley reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

Pioneer Valley

The Pioneer Valley is the geographical region consisting of three counties in the Connecticut River valley of Western Massachusetts:

• Hampden County
• Hampshire County
• Franklin County

The Pioneer Valley is sometimes known to its inhabitants as "the Happy Valley", or simply "the Valley".

The Pioneer Valley is a significant agricultural region. Shade-grown tobacco is one of the major crops; and tobacco fields and hundreds of tobacco barns dot the landscape.

Regions of Massachusetts
The Berkshires | Greater Boston | Cape Cod | North Shore | Pioneer Valley | South Shore
Counties
Barnstable | Berkshire | Bristol | Dukes | Essex | Franklin | Hampden | Hampshire | Middlesex | Nantucket | Norfolk | Plymouth | Suffolk | Worcester

This is the "Pioneer Valley" reference article from the English Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. See also our Disclaimer.