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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. Iron Furnace Site (also known as Braintree Furnace), from 1644 to 1653. Quincy, Massachusetts, oil on canvas, Childe Hassam, 1892
Quincy City Hall is the seat of government for the City of Quincy, Massachusetts.The historic town hall building at 1305 Hancock Street in Quincy Center was built in 1844. It is a somewhat monumental example of Greek Revival architecture, featuring a temple front with two-story Ionic pilasters and a triangular pediment.
The first quarry on the site, one of the earliest quarries in Quincy, was established on the site about 1825. In the late 1880s James Lyon bought the quarry and organized the Lyons Granite Company in 1893 with a paid in capital of $40,000.
October 18, 1972 (40 Washington St. 32: Noah Curtis House: Noah Curtis House: September 20, 1989 (313 Franklin St. 33: Thomas Curtis House: Thomas Curtis House
North Quincy is a neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts. It is separated from the city of Boston by the Neponset River, and borders the Quincy neighborhoods of Squantum, Montclair and Wollaston. It contains the smaller neighborhoods of Atlantic (sometimes used as a metonym for North Quincy) and Norfolk Downs, as well as much of Wollaston Beach.
The Quincy Quarries is a 22-acre (8.9 ha) public recreation area in Quincy, Massachusetts, commemorating the site of the Granite Railway—often credited as being the first railroad in the United States. [1]
The neighborhood roughly corresponds to census tract 4178.02. At the 2020 census, the population of the neighborhood was 3,217. Of the total population, 43.15% self-identified as white, 8.83% as black, 0.19% as Native American, 37.30% as Asian, 2.67% as some other race, and 7.86% as having two or more races.
South Quincy became populated in part as a result of the growth of the granite industry in Quincy in the 1800s. [1] Part of the neighborhood was once farms owned by Charles Francis Adams, Sr. and Job Faxon that were subdivided into lots. [2] The Faxon family donated land to the city in 1885 that became the wooded Faxon Park. [2]