Just south of Boston, Quincy is a city with 27 miles of shoreline and a special role in the early history of the United States. This is the birthplace of John Adams (1735-1826) and his son John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), the second and sixth U.S. presidents. John Hancock, the first signer of the Declaration of …
By the riverfront and perched on the bluffs, Quincy is a picture perfect city next to the Mississippi River in western Illinois. In the golden age of the Mississippi steamboats this settlement was a hub for commerce and transportation. That status is impossible to ignore on Quincy’s tree lined streets, sophisticated parks and neighborhoods constellated with …
A half-hour west of Tallahassee, Quincy is a 200-year-old city with a lot of unique stories to reveal. One compelling one is that dozens of mostly humble local residents struck rich in the Coca-Cola boom of the 1920s. As late as the 1980s that wealth was still sluicing through the city, when the Leaf Theater …