About Quincy, Florida

Quincy is a city of 7,970 people and the county seat of Gadsden County, 25 miles northwest of Tallahassee. It was established in 1828 and named for John Quincy Adams. By 1840 it had a male academy and a female academy, and Joshua Knowles printed the Quincy Sentinel here from 1839 until 1841, when the paper moved to Tallahassee and became the Florida Sentinel.

In 1829 John Smith came to the county by covered wagon with his family and four related families. The community already had a John Smith, so neighbors called him John "Virginia" Smith. He planted Cuban seed beside his own chewing and pipe tobacco, and over several years the two crossed. Seed saved from the mixed plants gave a thin, pale leaf called "Florida Wrapper." After the Civil War, growers learned that light, silky leaves sold best, so they shaded their fields, first with wood slats, then cheesecloth, and from 1950 with treated yellow cloth. Cigar wrapper tobacco ruled county life until demand dropped around 1970, and the last crop came in 1977.

  • Coca-Cola shares at $40Mark Welch "Mr. Pat" Munroe, a Quincy banker, held stock in three banks that put 500,000 new shares of Coca-Cola on the market. He and others pressed widows and farmers to buy at $40 a share. As the stock split again and again, as many as 67 investors and county residents grew rich, and people said the town was full of millionaires.
  • Quincy in the Civil WarOn June 27, 1860, the Constitutional Union Party, one of Florida's leading voices against secession, held its state convention in Quincy. Once the state left the Union anyway, former mayor William Tennent Stockton raised a cavalry company, the Gadsden Dragoons. Major Pleasant W. White of Quincy took overall command of the five districts that gathered beef, salt and other supplies from Florida for the Confederacy.
  • The Dixie family's fightIn the 1920s A. I. Dixie and other Black residents of Quincy kept trying to organize, vote and protest harsh labor conditions, and white attackers answered with violence. Dixie was flogged more than once. He kept going, and in 1964 he opened his home to student activists sent by the Congress of Racial Equality. That year his daughter Linda led a sit-in, while Jewell Dixie ran for Gadsden County Sheriff as the first African American candidate for the office.
  • The Leaf Theater, 1949The Leaf Theater opened in 1949 with Roy Rogers as host, and its name honored the shade tobacco that paid the town's bills. It shut down in 1980. In 1983 it was bought and donated to the Quincy Music Theatre, which restored it with help from relatives of the families who had first bought Coca-Cola stock.
  • 145 buildings, listed in 1978The Quincy Historic District joined the National Register on November 9, 1978, with 145 historic buildings between Sharon, Clark, Stewart and Corry Streets. Inside it, the Gadsden Arts Center now fills the old Bell and Bates hardware store, built in 1912. In 1996 Quincy was named an All American City.

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Names on the Quincy map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks1

  • Santa Clara

Streets and roads177

  • Pat Thomas Parkway
  • West Jefferson Street
  • North Adams Street
  • Adams Street
  • East Jefferson Street
  • South Pat Thomas Parkway
  • Lake Talquin Highway
  • East King Street
  • Roberts Street
  • Julia Munroe Woodward Highway
  • West Crawford Street
  • South Barack Obama Boulevard
  • Martin Luther King Boulevard
  • Forest Drive
  • 14th Street
  • Circle Drive
  • West Elm Street
  • 9 Th Street
  • North Madison Street
  • 11 Th Street
  • North Key Street
  • Cone Street
  • South Shelfer Street
  • Lincoln Street
  • Elm Street
  • South Adams Street
  • 10 Th Street
  • Main Line Drive
  • Camellia Drive
  • South Key Street
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  • South Eighth Street
  • North Love Street
  • West King Street
  • East Crawford Street
  • West Washington Street
  • Key Farm Road
  • Walsh Road
  • West Franklin Street
  • Fletcher Drive
  • South Stewart Street
  • Joe Adams Road
  • South Virginia Street
  • Fourth Street
  • Ralph Strong Road
  • Strong Road
  • Bellamy Drive
  • South Street
  • Hamilton Street
  • Cleveland Street
  • Live Oak Street
  • South Ninth Street
  • Florida Avenue
  • Shelfer Street
  • Orlando Street
  • North Shelfer Street
  • Cooper Street
  • Dupont Avenue
  • Airport Drive
  • Lillian Springs Road
  • Bradley Street
  • Virginia Street
  • North Jackson Street
  • C&e Farm Road
  • 4 Th Street
  • North Cleveland Street
  • Flagler Street
  • Station Street
  • North Pittman Street
  • Third Street
  • Ranch Road
  • Williams Street
  • Sikes Street
  • Canal Street
  • Camilla Avenue
  • Hill Street
  • Laura Street
  • North Duval Street
  • Seventh Street
  • Holt Lane
  • Patton Street
  • Joe Knight Street
  • Pavilion Drive
  • Reed Street
  • North Tenth Street
  • Hogan Lane
  • South Chalk Street
  • Virgina Street
  • Frank Smith Road
  • Main Street
  • Macon Street
  • Jetty Avenue
  • East Clark Street
  • Sunset Drive
  • Valley Drive
  • Davis Street
  • Ninth Street
  • Earnest Street
  • Clark Street
  • Wallace Drive
  • Sharon Street
  • Marty Street
  • Porro Street
  • Cox Lane
  • Ray Road
  • Madison Street
  • Blue Star Highway
  • Highland Avenue
  • Ben Boslick Road
  • Magnolia Drive
  • Highland
  • North Ninth Street
  • Elise Drive
  • West Sharon Street
  • North Lowe Street
  • South Cleveland Street
  • Arlington Circle
  • South Love Street
  • North Calhoun Street
  • North Monroe Street
  • South Bellamy Drive
  • Marshall Street
  • Dogwood Drive
  • South Jackson Street
  • Monroe Street
  • Carolina Street
  • Richard Moore Road
  • Kent Street
  • Fifth Street
  • Lucky Street
  • South Malcolm Street
  • Greenwood Drive
  • West Inlet Street
  • Calhoun Street
  • Shepard & Bostic Road
  • Alba Avenue
  • North Betlinet Drive
  • North Cone Street
  • Dade Street
  • Osceola Street
  • East Pavillion Drive
  • Spooner Road
  • Sarge's Lane
  • North 13th Street
  • Duval Street
  • Berry Street
  • Stewart Street
  • Dezel Street
  • Myrtle Avenue
  • Ivey Drive
  • Burmah Drive
  • Pine Avenue
  • First Street
  • North Eleventh Street
  • Sargent Street
  • 8 Th Street
  • South Madison Street
  • North Stewart Street
  • Cheeseborough Avenue
  • Woodland Avenue
  • Key Street
  • Sumter Street
  • Rosewood Street
  • Gadsden Street
  • North Macon Street
  • Corry Street
  • East Bay Street
  • Yah Street
  • Frierson Street
  • West Clark Street
  • Hardin Street
  • Smith Street
  • Caldwell Street
  • Research Road
  • Hillcrest Avenue
  • South Corry Street
  • 13th Street
  • Nixon Street

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