The story of Quincy’s contributions to Major League baseball is an impressive one. It involves All-Star games, World Series, League Leader tit…
QUINCY — The Quincy Area Chamber of Commerce will host their June business after hours event, featuring partner organizations Arts Quincy, The…
Thomas O’Dea was born in Ireland in 1848 and came to Boston as a young man. When the Civil War started he was adamant about serving and ran aw…
On May 30, 1886, a large crowd gathered at Woodland Cemetery to honor the Union dead buried there. The traditions associated with honoring fal…
Highlights of archaeological work done at the New Philadelphia site and the story of a Civil War nurse will be featured in a June lecture series.
QUINCY — The Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County received awards in two different categories of the 2021 Best of Illinois History co…
Ernest Michael Wood (1863-1956) was a Quincy architect. Although no relation to John Wood, he was instrumental in the original restoration wor…
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Looking at history we often conjure up an idealized view of the past or one that is scornful and appalled at the poor conditions of the time.
Nine-year-old Abraham Venvertloh had some questions about Louise Maertz and her service as a Civil War nurse.
Thomas Edison believed his invention in 1888 of a motion picture camera and seven years later a “kinetograph,” which projected these pictures …
The sight of the Salem Church steeple pointing high towards the heavens is well-known to most Quincy natives.
Epidemics have been around for centuries. The earliest known epidemics in America were smallpox and yellow fever in the 18th century, followed…
Quincy has had many musical families. Among the more prominent are the Wagners and the Winkings, whose stories are virtually parallel, often i…
On October 5, 1913, the Quincy Daily Whig informed readers that “the prominent Chicago lawyer” Clarence Darrow would “address Quincy unionists…
One of the scrapbooks in the Historical Society’s collection has a story from the Quincy Daily Herald dated July 24, 1909 about Quincyan John …
One of Quincy’s most interesting characters was John Heller, who lived from 1844 until 1925. During his lifetime, he experienced poverty and w…
The Statue of Liberty dedicated in 1886 has inscribed the American ideal of this country as a refuge for immigrants seeking a better life. “Gi…
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893) was a distinguished Ohioan who trained as a lawyer, served as an officer in the Civil War with the 23rd …
QUINCY — The first show of 2021, and the first at the newly-branded Quincy Town Center, drew residents from all around the area this weekend.
QUINCY — The John Wood Mansion and the History Museum on the Square will both be reopening to the public in short order, according to a releas…
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On Jan. 1, 1863, an important meeting was held at the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church among Quincy residents of African ancestry, …
Incurable contagious diseases in our area have been a problem for all of our history. In the late 1800s newspapers routinely tracked and repor…
As the United States entered the fall of 1927, the country’s economic prospects shined brighter than in previous decades, with the relative pr…
The attempt by Dr. Richard Eells to liberate a Missouri slave we know only as Charley is one of the most dramatic and tragic stories in the hi…
If you wander around Woodland Cemetery, you might come across an interesting tombstone memorializing John M. Cyrus, a prominent Quincy attorne…
A hundred years ago in Quincy, chickens were taken seriously.