Quincy, Massachusetts
Quincy, Massachusetts City of Quincy Flag of Quincy, Massachusetts Flag Official seal of Quincy, Massachusetts Quincy is positioned in Massachusetts Quincy - Quincy Quincy (pronounced / kw nzi/ kwin-zee) is the biggest city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.
Its populace in 2010 was 92,271, making it the 8th biggest city in the state. Known as the "City of Presidents," Quincy is the place of birth of two U.S.
Presidents John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams as well as John Hancock, a President of the Continental Congress and the first signer of the Declaration of Independence.
First settled in 1625, Quincy was briefly part of Dorchester and Boston before becoming the north precinct of Braintree in 1640.
In 1792, Quincy was split off from Braintree; the new town was titled after Colonel John Quincy, maternal grandfather of Abigail Adams and after whom John Quincy Adams was also named. Quincy became a town/city in 1888.
For more than a century, Quincy was home to a grow granite industry; the town/city was also the site of the Granite Railway, the United States' first commercial barns .
The central part of this sketch was adopted as the seal of Quincy.
Massachusett sachem Chickatawbut had his seat on a hill called Moswetuset Hummock before to the settlement of the region by English colonists, situated east of the mouth of the Neponset River near what is now called Squantum. It was visited in 1621 by Plymouth Colony commander Myles Standish and Squanto, a native guide. Four years later, a party led by Captain Wollaston established a post on a low hill near the south shore of Quincy Bay east of present-day Black's Creek.
(The Indians used the name Passonagessit ("Little Neck of Land") for the area.) This settlement was titled Mount Wollaston with respect to the leader, who left the region soon after 1625, bound for Virginia. The Wollaston neighborhood in Quincy still retains Captain Wollaston's name.
He was sent back to England, only to return and be arrested by Puritans the next year. The region of Quincy now called Merrymount is positioned on the site of the initial English settlement of 1625 and takes its name from the punning name given by Morton. Beginning in 1708, the undivided border of Quincy first took shape as the North Precinct of Braintree. Following the American Revolution, Quincy was officially incorporated as a separate town titled for Col.
John Quincy in 1792, and was made a town/city in 1888. In 1845 the Old Colony Railroad opened; the Massachusetts Historical Commission stated that the barns was "the beginning of a trend toward suburbanization".
Quincy became as accessible to Boston as was Charlestown.
The first suburban territory company, Bellevue Land Co., had been organized in northern Quincy in 1870. Quincy's populace interval by over 50 percent amid the 1920s. It was constructed in 1826 to carry granite from a Quincy quarry to the Neponset River in Milton so that the contemporary could then be taken by boat to erect the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
Quincy granite became famous throughout the nation, and stonecutting became the city's principal economic activity.
Quincy was also home to the first iron furnace in the United States, the John Winthrop, Jr.
Quincy, Massachusetts, petroleum on canvas, Childe Hassam, 1892 In the 1870s, the town/city gave its name to the Quincy Method, an influential approach to education advanced by Francis W.
Parker while he served as Quincy's superintendent of schools.
Parker, an early proponent of progressive education, put his ideas into practice in the city's underperforming schools; four years later, a state survey found that Quincy's students were excelling. Quincy was extraly meaningful as a ship assembly center.
Sailing ships were assembled in Quincy for many years, including the only seven-masted schooner ever built, Thomas W.
Quincy was also an aviation pioneer thanks to Dennison Field.
The Howard Johnson's and Dunkin' Donuts restaurant chains were both established in Quincy.
Quincy is also home to the United States' longest running Flag Day parade, a tradition that began in 1952 under Richard Koch, a former director of Parks and Recreation, who started the "Koch Club" sports organization for kids and had an annual parade with flags. Quincy and encircling area showing elevations and features Quincy shares borders with Boston to the north (separated by the Neponset River), Milton to the west, Randolph and Braintree to the south, and Weymouth (separated by the Fore River) and Hull (maritime border between Quincy Bay and Hingham Bay) to the east.
Historically, before incorporation when it was called "Mount Wollaston" and later as the "North Precinct" of Braintree, Quincy roughly began at the Neponset River in the north and ended at the Fore River in the south.
Quincy Bay, inside town/city limits to the northeast, is part of Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay.
There are a several beaches in Quincy, including Wollaston Beach along Quincy Shore Drive.
Located on the shore of Quincy Bay, Wollaston Beach is the biggest Boston Harbor beach. Quincy's territory includes Hangman Island, Moon Island (restricted access, and all territory is owned by the City of Boston), Nut Island (now a peninsula), and Raccoon Island in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area.
Although Quincy is primarily urban, 2,485 acres (3.9 sq mi; 10.1 km2) or fully 23 percent of its territory area lies inside the uninhabited Blue Hills Reservation, a state park managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.
This undeveloped natural region encompasses the southwestern portion of Quincy and includes the city's highest point, 517 foot (158 m) Chickatawbut Hill.
Other hills inside Quincy include Forbes Hill in Wollaston, Presidents Hill in Quincy Center and Penns Hill in South Quincy. 33.5% were of Irish (making Quincy the most Irish American town/city in the entire United States), 12.7% Italian and 5.0% English lineage according to Enumeration 2000.
Kam Man Food in Quincy, Massachusetts As of 2010 Quincy has the highest per capita concentration of persons of Asian origin in Massachusetts. As of 2003 about 66% of the Asians in Quincy are ethnic Chinese, giving the town/city one of the biggest Chinese populations in the state. There is also a improve of persons of East Indian origins, with most of them working in knowledge technology and other skilled professions. There is also a burgeoning number of citizens with Vietnamese origins in the region as well as they make up the second biggest Asian American group in Quincy.
In 1980 there were 750 persons of Asian origin in Quincy.
Most of the Asian immigrants coming in the 1980s originated from Hong Kong and Taiwan. In 1990, Quincy had 5,577 persons of Asian origin, with 143 of them being of East Indian origin. The number of Asians increased to 13,546 in 2000, with about 9,000 of them being ethnic Chinese, and 1,127 of them being ethnic East Indian.
The latter group interval by 688%, making it the fastest-growing Asian subgroup in Quincy. Around 2003 most Asian immigrants were coming from Fujian freshwater Hong Kong and Taiwan. At that time Quincy had a higher Asian populace than the Boston Chinatown. The overall Asian populace increased by 64% in the following decade, to 22,174 in 2010. Quincy's Chinese populace increased by 60% amid that time period. Historically Quincy inhabitants traveled to shops in Chinatown, Boston, but by 2003 Asian shopping centers became established in Quincy. By 2003 New York City-based Kam Man Food was establishing a supermarket in Quincy. As of 2000 about 50% of Asians in Quincy own their own homes; many who rent do so while saving cash for down payments for their homes. 65% of the Chinese were homeowners while only 10% of the East Indians were homeowners. As of 2003 slightly more than 2,500 Asian Americans in Quincy were registered to vote, making up almost 25% of Asians in the town/city who were eligible to vote. In the 1980s some ethnic tensions, including violence, between caucasians and Asians occurred, and at the time the town/city did not employ any Asian police officers, leaving the Asian populace to feel a lack of trust in the police. By 2003 the ethnic tensions had been greatly reduced, and the Quincy Police Department at that time had Asian officers. By 2003 Quincy Asian Resources Inc.
(BCNC; ) executive director Elaine Ng stated that the center would begin to offer services in Quincy.
The number of persons using BCNC services residing in Quincy increased by almost 300% in a reconstructionbeginning in 2004 and ending in 2005. Map of Quincy neighborhoods Quincy is divided into various neighbourhoods with individual histories and characteristics. Merrymount is a primarily residentiary neighborhood and the site of Quincy's initial settlement.
North Quincy is a residentiary and commercial neighborhood along Hancock Street and Quincy Shore Drive that includes a substantial Asian American populace with substantial Asian company growth.
Quincy Center is the commercial and government center of the town/city where City Hall, Thomas Crane Public Library, the United First Parish Church (Old Stone Church), Quincy Masonic Building, and various office buildings and residentiary streets can be found.
Quincy Point is a densely populated residentiary region east of Quincy Center, with commercial areas along Quincy Avenue and Southern Artery, that is also the site of the Fore River Shipyard.
South Quincy is a residentiary region bordering the town of Braintree that includes Crown Colony office park and Faxon Park, a wooded 66-acre (0.27 km2) protected space.
Squantum is the peninsular northernmost part of Quincy interval from being a summer resort adjoining to an early civilian, then Naval Air Station Squantum, into a year-round residentiary neighborhood.
West Quincy is a residentiary and commercial section with immediate access to Interstate 93 and the site of a several former granite quarries, now the Quincy Quarries Reservation, and the Granite Railway, first commercial stockyards in the United States.
Wollaston, titled for Captain Richard Wollaston, the prestige of Quincy's initial settlers, was an early rail-accessed commuter home for Boston workers that is now a densely populated residentiary and commercial region and site of Eastern Nazarene College.
A brown 10-story office building, command posts building of Stop & Shop supermarket chain in Quincy Center Headquarters building of Stop & Shop supermarket chain in Quincy Center During its history Quincy has been known as a manufacturing and heavy trade center, with granite quarrying dominating employment in the 19th century and ship assembly at Fore River Shipyard and Squantum Victory Yard rising to eminence in the 20th century.
The recent decades have seen a shift in focus to a several large employers in the financial services, insurance and community care sectors of the economy. Quincy is the locale of the corporate command posts of a several firms, including Boston Financial Data Services, the Stop & Shop supermarket chain, Arbella Insurance Group and The Patriot Ledger, publisher the South Shore's biggest county-wide newspaper. Other primary employers with offices in Quincy are State Street Corporation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Boston Scientific. TACV, nationwide flag carrier airline of Cape Verde, has its United States corporate office in Quincy. Icelandair has its North American command posts in the town/city as well.
Quincy $33,131 $61,328 $74,544 92,595 39,778 Quincy has a strong mayor government.
Six councilors are propel to represent Quincy's wards, and three are propel at large.
Quincy is represented in the Massachusetts State Senate by Democrat John F.
Four members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives represent Quincy: Bruce Ayers, Tackey Chan, Daniel Hunt, and Ronald Mariano.
Quincy is home to various educational establishments, enhance and private, including one early childhood education center, one Montessori school, one Catholic school, one college preliminary school, two colleges, Eastern Nazarene College, a private liberal arts and sciences college, and Quincy College, a private, localized college, two enhance high schools, five enhance middle schools, and 12 enhance elementary schools.
In the 19th century, the town/city became an innovator in progressive enhance education with the Quincy Method, advanced by Francis W.
Parker while he served as Quincy's superintendent of schools.
Four years after its implementation, a state survey found that Quincy students excelled at reading, writing, and spelling, and ranked fourth in their county in math. Quincy College, a improve college in Quincy Center, operates under the auspices of the City of Quincy.
The college is unusual in this respect, as it is the only one of Massachusetts' 16 improve universities to be run by a town/city clean water by the state. It is one of only two universities in the United States organized this way. Public education at the major and secondary levels is managed by Quincy Public Schools, a fitness that includes one early childhood center, eleven elementary schools, five middle schools and two high schools. North Quincy High School Quincy High School Private and alternative education establishments for kids in preschool-8th undertaking include Quincy's three Catholic schools - Sacred Heart, St.
Mary. Because of declining enrollment and the ongoing economic crisis, the three consolidated to form the Quincy Catholic Academy, which opened in September 2010, at the site of the Sacred Heart school. The Woodward School for Girls is a non-sectarian college preliminary day school for girls in grades 6-12 Campus Kinder Haus (CKH) is directed by the Eastern Nazarene College on its Old Colony campus. The Adams Montessori School is open for kids of preschool through elementary school age The Thomas Crane Public Library serves as the enhance library fitness of Quincy, Massachusetts.
Peter Jae established the Quincy Chinese Language School, which offers supplementary education for Chinese children, in 1988.
As of 2003 it holds Cantonese language classes for 150 students at the Sacred Heart School in North Quincy on Saturday mornings.
The Chung Yee School is another Chinese school in Quincy.
The school was briefly closed by the Quincy Police Department in November 28, 2008 due to a lack of Massachusetts state and small-town government permits.
In December 2002 the Vrindavana Preservation Society established the Vaisnava Academy which caters to Quincy's East Indian improve and offers courses for children.
As part of Metro Boston, Quincy has easy access to transit facilities.
Due to its adjacency to Boston proper, Quincy is connected not only by these modes of transit but also to the county-wide subway system, directed by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), known locally as "The T".
The four subway or "T" stops in Quincy, which are on the MBTA's Red Line, are North Quincy Station, Wollaston Station, Quincy Center Station, and Quincy Adams Station.
Route 1 travel south to north concurrently through Quincy beginning in the southwest, where the Quincy Randolph border bisects the median between the northern and southern halves of the Exit 5 cloverleaf at Massachusetts Route 28.
The highway travels along a wooded wetland region of the Reservation, entering Quincy completely just beyond Exit 5 and then crossing into Braintree as it approaches the Braintree Split, the junction with Massachusetts Route 3.
As Route 3 joins I-93 and US 1 at the Braintree Split, the three travel north together toward Boston around the easterly extent of the Blue Hills Reservation, entering West Quincy as the Southeast Expressway.
The expressway provides access to West Quincy at Exit 8 Furnace Brook Parkway and Exit 9 Bryant Avenue/Adams Street before entering Milton.
The Furnace Brook Parkway exit also provides access to Ricciuti Drive and the Quincy Quarries Reservation as well as the easterly entrance to the Blue Hills Reservation Parkways.
Principal numbered state highways traveling inside Quincy include: Route 3 - A south to north from Weymouth via Washington Street, Southern Artery, Merrymount Parkway and Hancock Street to the Neponset River Bridge and the Dorchester section of Boston; Route 28, which travels south to north from Randolph to Milton along Randolph Avenue in Quincy through a remote section of the Blue Hills Reservation; and Route 53, which enters traveling south to north from Braintree as Quincy Avenue, turning right to form the beginning of Southern Artery in Quincy Point before ending at the intersection with Washington Street/Route 3 - A.
Quincy Center as seen from the intersection of Adams Street and Hancock Street.
In addition to the Blue Hills parkways, Quincy includes two other Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation parkways.
Furnace Brook Parkway travels east from I-93 through the center of the town/city from West Quincy to Quincy Center and Merrymount at Quincy Bay.
There the parkway meets Quincy Shore Drive at the mouth of Blacks Creek.
Quincy Shore Drive travels in a northerly direction along the shore of Quincy Bay through Wollaston and into North Quincy, with much of its length abutting Wollaston Beach, then turns in a westerly direction upon intersecting with East Squantum Street and continues to meet Hancock Street at the Neponset River Bridge.
As for Quincy's other meaningful city streets, Hancock Street begins at the southern extent of Quincy Center and travels north to Dorchester as a chief commercial thoroughfare of Quincy Center, Wollaston and North Quincy.
Washington Street enters the town/city at Fore River Rotary after crossing Weymouth Fore River and continues to Quincy Center, ending at Hancock Street.
Along with Quincy Avenue and Southern Artery, other heavily traveled streets include Newport Avenue, which alongsides Hancock Street to the west on the opposite side of the MBTA stockyards , Adams Street heading west from Quincy Center to Milton, and West and East Squantum Streets in the Montclair and North Quincy neighborhoods.
Subway service is available on the Red Line of the MBTA from four stations in Quincy: North Quincy, Wollaston, Quincy Center, and Quincy Adams.
Commuter rail service operates out of Quincy Center.
Buses are also available for transit in Quincy, including private bus lines and a several lines provided by the MBTA.
Most of the MBTA routes funnel through the Quincy Center station, which is the principal core south of Boston for all MBTA bus lines.
The southern bus garage for the MBTA fitness is adjoining to the Quincy Armory on Hancock Street.
Quincy was a primary terminal for the commuter boat fitness that crosses Boston Harbor to Long Wharf, Hull, Rowe's Wharf, Hingham, and Logan Airport.
The commuter boats, which were directed by Harbor Express under license by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, docked at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy Point. Service ended in October 2013 after a water chief break damaged the sea wall and wharf.
Quincy has had brief flirtations with experienced sports.
The Quincy Chiefs of the minor league Eastern Basketball Association (the predecessor to the defunct Continental Basketball Association) played a single season in 1977-78, and was coached and managed by former Boston Celtics executive Leo Papile.
Quincy's experienced baseball team, the Shipbuilders, competed in the New England League in 1933, recording a 12-6 record before moving to Nashua midseason.
The final season of the Boston Minutemen of the North American Soccer League was played at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Quincy, in 1976, finishing 7-17.
Quincy has had a several football squads in the semi-pro Eastern Football League over the years.
The current club, the Quincy Militia, played its inaugural season in the EFL in 2009. Founded in 2009 by long-time Quincy resident Vaughn Driscoll, new owners came into the team picture in 2013.
Quincy's only college sports program is the "Lions" of Eastern Nazarene College, in the DIII Commonwealth Coast Conference of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC).
Games are played at Bradley Field and the Lahue Physical Education Center on-campus, or at Adams and Veterans Memorial Fields in Quincy.
Quincy's high school sports programs are in the Patriot League: the DIII Fisher Division "Red Raiders" of North Quincy High School and the DIIA Keenan Division "Presidents" of Quincy High School, who are rivals.
Quincy also hosted the youth baseball Babe Ruth League World Series in 2003, 2005 and 2008.
See also: Category:People from Quincy, Massachusetts diplomat, son of John Quincy Adams Charles Francis Adams III 44th Secretary of the Navy, mayor of Quincy John Quincy Adams sixth President of the United States John Quincy Adams II lawyer and politician Louisa Adams wife of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States Noreen Corcoran American actress and dancer, born in Quincy in 1943 Sam Mele Major League Baseball and Manager who resided in Quincy while playing for the Boston Red Sox. Dorothy Quincy Hancock Scott socialite, wife of John Hancock Edmund Quincy (1628 1698) who assembled the Dorothy Quincy House (1685) Edmund Quincy (1681 1737) jurist Edmund Quincy (1703 1788) merchant John Quincy colonel, General Court representative, and grandfather of Abigail Adams Josiah Quincy II attorney, "the Patriot", journal propagandist Josiah Quincy III president of Harvard University (1829 1845), U.S.
Josiah Quincy, Jr.
Mayor of Boston (1846 1848), assembled the Josiah Quincy Mansion Josiah Quincy General Court representative, assistant secretary of the Navy, mayor of Boston (1895 1899) Samuel Miller Quincy lawyer, historian, Civil War soldier, and 28th mayor of New Orleans (May 5, 1865 June 8, 1865) Quincy Quincy Mansion Quincy Mosque National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts The Josiah Quincy House in Wollaston Park.
Tombs of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams and their wives, in a family crypt beneath the United First Parish Church in Quincy Center.
Quincy Quarries Reservation in West Quincy.
View of Marina Bay and Boston athwart Quincy Bay from Wollaston Beach.
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