Gary
Rome Hyundai
The beautiful, idyllic Pioneer
Valley of Western
Massachusetts used to be one of the world's best
kept secrets. But now, more and more companies are
choosing to expand here creating jobs, and increasing
opportunities for all. Simply telling the good news of
this region's lower costs and great quality of life to
the right corporate decision makers, is attracting
strong interest.
The eastern part of Massachusetts,
including the Cape Cod peninsula and the islands lying
off it to the south—the Elizabeth Islands, Martha's
Vineyard, and Nantucket—is a low coastal plain. In
this area short, swift rivers such as the Merrimack have
long supplied industry with power, and an indented
coastline provides many good natural harbors, with Boston
a major U.S. port. In the interior rise uplands
separated by the rich Connecticut
River valley, and farther west lies the Berkshire
valley, surrounded by the Berkshire
Hills, part of the Taconic Mts. The western streams
feed both the Hudson and the Housatonic rivers. The
state has a mean altitude of c.500 ft (150 m), and Mt.
Greylock in the Berkshires
is the highest point (3,491 ft/1,064 m). The climate is
variable.
Boston is
the capital and largest city. Other important cities
include Worcester, Springfield,
Lowell, New Bedford, Cambridge, Brockton, Fall River,
and Quincy. The state is famed for its historic points
of interest, among them being those at Sturbridge,
Concord, and Lexington; at three national historical
parks—Boston,
Lowell, and Minute Man; and at eight national historic
sites—Adams, Boston African American, Frederick Law
Olmsted, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Longfellow, Salem
Maritime, Saugus Iron Works, and Springfield Armory (see
National Parks and Monuments, table). Cultural
attractions include the noted Tanglewood music festival
(see Berkshire Festival) and the many educational
facilities of the state.
As a recreation and vacation land, Massachusetts
has great stretches of seashore in the east and many
lakes and streams in the wooded Berkshire
Hills in the west. There are numerous state parks,
forests, and beaches, and Cape Cod is the site of a
national seashore. Provincetown, on Cape Cod, and
Rockport, on Cape Ann, are artist colonies; Marblehead
is a noted yachting center.
Western
Massachusetts in the Connecticut
River Valley. Bordered by West
Springfield on the south; Westfield,
Southampton,
and Easthampton
on the west; and separated from South
Hadley and Chicopee
by the Connecticut
River on the east. Holyoke
is 90 miles west of Boston;
34 miles north of Hartford,
Connecticut; and 142 miles from New
York City.
Massachusetts
is the most populous of the New
England states of the Northeast
United States. It is bordered by New
York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
Gary Rome
Hyundai is located in Holyoke,
which is in Hampden
County. We are just minutes away from Route 91, 20
minutes outside of Springfield,
MA and under an hour from Hartford,
CT. Holyoke
is home to the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside, one of the
biggest shopping malls in New
England.
On February 9, 1895, William G. Morgan invented
volleyball at a YMCA in Holyoke.
It is also sometimes claimed that basketball shares
volleyball's Holyoke
origins, but, nonetheless, the credit goes to
neighboring Springfield.
Holyoke is
also the home of the second largest St. Patrick's Day
parade in the United States. Held annually on the Sunday
following St. Patrick's Day, the parade draws thousands
of people from across the region and nation.
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