QUINCY — A new informational marker and a Woodland Cemetery tour will highlight the Civil War service of Quincyan Edward Prince.
QUINCY — When Gen. Ulysses S. Grant aimed to take Vicksburg in 1863 in the midst of the Civil War, he needed a diversion to shield troop movements.
Born in Blessing Hospital in Quincy, on May 3, 1906, Lucile Langhanke was the only child of Otto Langhanke and Helen Vasconcells Langhanke. Em…
BARRY, Ill. — Brigadier Gen. Donald L. Scott (retired) says the life of Free Frank McWorter provides lessons for living today.
WARSAW, Ill. — The Warsaw Historical Society will celebrate the community’s history with an open house from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday.
The drought of 1934 was just another difficulty to be faced by area residents living through the historic depression of the 1930’s. The stock …
QUINCY — An organization dedicated to preserving the history of Quincy and Adams County is celebrating its 125th anniversary.
Efforts to tell more of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ story in Nauvoo have won a statewide preservation award.
Private automobile ownership exploded in the 1920s. In 1919, there were about 6.5 million passenger cars in America. By 1929 that number had i…
Following the end of World War I in November 1918, a celebratory spirit arose across the United States accompanied by an increasingly popular …
The City of Quincy has several connections to the Civil War. Quincy was, at one time, home to Sen. Stephen Douglas, Gen. Benjamin Mayberry Pre…
In 1882 an African American blacksmith born into slavery, and prominent Adams County Republican, John Longress, secured a ruling from the Illi…
QUINCY — Reg Ankrom holds up a sheaf of papers in an effort to set the record straight about Stephen Douglas.
William Samuel Knapheide was born April 14, 1865. His family, originally from Germany, settled in Quincy and started a wagon manufacturing bus…
Charles Lambert “Pat” Redd was known as “The Flying Hawk” during the two years he attended Quincy College. Entering the school in the fall of …
The 1920s saw baseball as the country’s national pastime, but when the World Series ended, the sports minded turned to college football. Track…
BARRY, Ill. — An effort to make the New Philadelphia site a national park has cleared another hurdle.
There was a stir among the local athletic crowd when news broke on Tuesday, March 31, 1925, that current track and field coach and former Univ…
QUINCY — Robert Tabern hopes to preserve more of the history of a one of a kind train this week as he travels the Tri-States.
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) first formed in the former Confederate States of America following the end of the Civil War in 1865. This clandestine g…
“Saturday night’s big rain played more havoc in the national graveyard at Woodland Cemetery. The north embankment was again washed into Jeffer…
Quincy has always profited from the Mississippi, but never so directly as around 1900. And it all started with the lowly freshwater mussel or …
On July 24, 1908, The Daily Journal carried a photograph of Henry E. Schmiedeskamp, not yet 30 years old, with his request for votes in the Au…
HANNIBAL, Mo. — A few light sprinkles Saturday didn’t stop the crowd from turning out to Hannibal’s Central Park for the 24th Juneteenth Celebration.
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…