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From Wikipedia’s history of Quincy.
Quincy was laid out in 1830, and named for John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States.
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History · Quincy
Quincy’s post office opened in 1834, and 56% of its homes were built before 1940
Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1913 on, and the census since 1850.
1834first post office
0on the National Register
56%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
1famous people
Quick answers
How Quincy began
When was Quincy founded?
1834
The Quincy post office opened in 1834, the earliest record of the town by name.
First census: 373 in 18502020 census: 536192 years
Founding year: the first Quincy post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
What stands out about Quincy’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Quincy’s homes were built before 1938.Boom and bustPeaked at 734 in 2000; 536 people lived here in 2020.On the map since 19133 editions of the USGS map, 1913 to 1961. Watch Quincy change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Quincy’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.People over time
Quincy, census by census
Peaked at 734 in 2000; 536 people lived here in 2020.
18 censuses, 1850–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Quincy’s Wikipedia page.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Quincy in 1880
Passages that mention Quincy, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Logan County and Ohio1880 · page 366Read the page →
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In 1830 Mr. Baldwin laid out a tier of lots on either side of Main street, aggregating thirty-four lots, and called it the village of Quincy, to express his admiration of Johan Quincy Adams. Three years later he added thirty-two lots adjuining the former on the south, through which passes South street. In this same year, Manlove Chambers, who owned
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History of Logan County and Ohio1880 · page 286Read the page →
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The United States, not to be outdone by the Mother Country, built a railroad in 1827, from the granite quaries of Quincy, Mass., to the Neponset River, a distance of three miles. This road was operated by horse-power, and was the first railroad built upon the American Continent. During the same year a railroad was laid out from the Mauch Chunk coal
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History of Logan County and Ohio1880 · page 372Read the page →
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After the shock had lasted about a moment, its destroying force was carried onward to De Graff, which is situated three miles froin Quincy, and there the same scenes were reenacted among the populace. The destruction was principally wrought in the best section of the town, but was not as extensive as in Quincy. The whirlwind seemed to be
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Quincy, 1834 to 2000
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1834Post officeThe Quincy post office opens
- 1870
Born hereBelle Culp Reeves is born here - 1890
In the archiveAtlas of Logan County, Ohio - 20th century
- 1913
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey - 21st century
- 2000CensusPopulation peaks at 734
By decade
Quincy, decade by decade
One decade in the archive so far: the 1890s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
1890s1 item
1900s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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2004On the map
Quincy on the map, 1913 to 1961
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Quincy. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1913Bellefontaine sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Quincy.
Questions about Quincy’s history
What year was Quincy founded?
The Quincy post office opened in 1834, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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Where this page comes from
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.