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Quincy (/ ˈ k w ɪ n z i / KWIN-zee) is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.It is the largest city in the county. Quincy is part of the Greater Boston area as one of Boston's immediate southern suburbs.
Quincy Bay. Quincy Bay is the largest of the three small bays of southern Boston Harbor, [1][2] part of Massachusetts Bay and forming much of the shoreline of the city of Quincy, Massachusetts. Locally in the Wollaston neighborhood of Quincy it is known as Wollaston Bay. [3] The bay is home to Moon Island, Long Island, and Hangman Island.
Coordinates: 42.251°N 70.965°W. Map showing Germantown neighborhood in 1858. Germantown is a primarily residential neighborhood in the city of Quincy, Massachusetts. The neighborhood is located on a peninsula surrounded by Town River bay on the west and Rock Island Cove on the east. This peninsula was known since the 1640s as “Shed's Neck”.
Furnace Brook Parkway is a historic parkway in Quincy, Massachusetts. Part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston, it serves as a connector between the Blue Hills Reservation and Quincy Shore Reservation at Quincy Bay. First conceived in the late nineteenth century, the state parkway is owned and maintained by the Massachusetts ...
Wollaston (Quincy, Massachusetts) Coordinates: 42°16′00″N 71°00′52″W. Wollaston Beach, with the Boston skyline in the background, in April 2009. Wollaston, Massachusetts, is a neighborhood in the city of Quincy, Massachusetts. Divided by Hancock Street or Route 3A, the Wollaston Beach side is known as Wollaston Park, while the ...
Merrymount (Quincy, Massachusetts) Coordinates: 42.2626°N 70.9953°W. Merrymount is a primarily residential neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts, USA, located between the neighborhoods of Quincy Center and Adams Shore. [1] Although it was the site of Quincy's initial settlement, Merrymount was not substantially developed for residential use ...
Mount Wollaston Cemetery. Briggs, Luther; Briggs, Daniel. Mount Wollaston Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery at 20 Sea Street in the Merrymount neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1855 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
June 23, 2003. Quincy Shore Drive is a historic parkway in Quincy, Massachusetts. The road is one of a series of parkways built by predecessors of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, to provide access to parks and beaches in the Greater Boston area. Its development was proposed in 1893 by Charles Eliot, who promoted the ...