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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Washington Park, Quincy, Illinois
Author: History of the Park System of Quincy, Illinois, 1888-1917
Author: Quincy Boulevard and Park AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Parks
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Design Study for Maine Street Mall and Washington Park, Quincy, Illinois
Author: Harold J. KatzinPublisher:
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Category : Washington Park (Quincy, Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Quincy, Illinois
Author: Carl LandrumPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738507835
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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When John Wood built his first log cabin in 1822 at what is now Front and Delaware Streets, he began a settlement that would become Quincy, Illinois. To the east was a high bluff, and to the west, the Mississippi River. As the town grew, it moved eastward onto the bluff. In Qunicy's early days, the settlers depended on the Mississippi River for their livelihood. Today's residents still depend upon the Mississippi, but now more for transportation and for pleasure. It is difficult today to imagine what the area looked like in those early years. As with many American towns, Quincy has experienced change through the years, dramatic and subtle, both captured here in the unforgettable images of Then & Now: Quincy, Illinois.
Quincy and the State of Illinois Pay Honor to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas
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Category : Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Quincy, Illinois
Author: Carl LandrumPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738501277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Quincy, Illinois, is located on the Mississippi River about 20 miles north of Hannibal, Missouri, and 100 miles west of Springfield, the state capital. Both Quincy and the county in which it lies, Adams, were named for President John Quincy Adams. In 1822, a man named John Wood built a cabin at the foot of what would later become Delaware Street, near the Mississippi River. As more people came, the village grew eastward from that spot. Many German and Irish immigrants came to Quincy, along with pioneers moving from Kentucky and Virginia. These settlers were lured to the area by reports of the lush land called the "Jewel of the West," which was later called "The Gem City." Industrialists came from New York and other Eastern states and built many of the stately homes on Maine Street and the adjacent streets. Early industry in Quincy included pork packing, tobacco processing, paper making, stove making, carriage making, the ice industry, and lumberyards.
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Author: James F. Jaquess
Author: Patricia B. BurnettePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786473584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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Tall, handsome and charismatic, James Jaquess impressed men and charmed ladies who knew him as a preacher, a college president or colonel of an Illinois regiment. In 1864 he and James Gilmore talked to Jefferson Davis about terms of peace. Lincoln recognized his many abilities and invited Jaquess to serve as one of his personal agents. But after the Civil War ended, this biography reveals, Jaquess' life changed for the worse. He was tried in Kentucky for the death of a woman and failed as a carpetbagger in Arkansas and Mississippi. Then he convinced his family and friends in Indiana and numerous residents of New York to invest in Lawrence-Townley bonds and share in a fortune waiting in England. This venture ended in poverty for him and a sentence in a British prison. When he returned to America for his final years, Jaquess still held the respect of the men of the 73rd Infantry and the affection of the women who knew him as president of their college in Jacksonville. His misadventures having turned his black hair to white, he still possessed the charisma that had led to his national fame.
The Americana
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society
Author: Illinois State Historical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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