Check out every page of this 1973 Midwest League Quincy Cubs Official Souvenir Game Program. Special thanks to Brian Inman for finding thi...

The Gardner Museum of Architecture and Design 's popular First Saturday Walking Tours program takes place the first Saturday of every mo...

Stephen Douglas presented Abraham Lincoln with a six foot sculpture of an ear of corn. Right here in Quincy in 1858. What? Read all about ...

On Thursday, April 12, 1945, at 10:20pm just hours after residents learned of the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a tornado st...

While on a barnstorming tour two weeks before the 1907 World Series, the Chicago Cubs made a stop in Quincy. The Buds were part of the I-I L...

Military Land Tracts of Illinois. Bounty lands for Veterans of The War of 1812.

Born in Clayton, John Anderson grew up in Quincy and Adams County. After attending college at Iowa and serving in WWII, Anderson went from p...

5th and Maine Street in Quincy, looking north.

Tours of The Governor John Wood Mansion and The History Museum are Tuesday through Saturday - April through October - from 10am to 2pm with ...

Built in 1885 this historically significant structure served as the minister’s home for the English Lutheran Church, which later became Luth...

If you have any old photographs that you would like to share on this blog, please send them in, and I'll post them. Any old or interest...

Welcome to the official blog of the Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County. It's been around for only a couple days, but this is...

Riverview Park Observatory in Quincy, circa 1900. Looking up towards Riverview Park.