Quincy is a city in and the
county seat
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of
Gadsden County, Florida
Gadsden County is a county located in the panhandle of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 43,826. Its county seat is Quincy. Gadsden County is included in the Tallahassee, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Ga ...
, United States. The population was 7,972 at the
2010 census,
up from 6,982 at the
2000 census.
Quincy is part of the
Tallahassee metropolitan area
The Tallahassee Metropolitan Statistical area is the metropolitan area centered on Tallahassee, Florida.
The Tallahassee Metropolitan Statistical Area is a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) designated by the Office of Management and Budget an ...
.
History
![Quincy FL Courthouse05](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Quincy_FL_Courthouse05.JPG)
Established in 1828, Quincy is the county seat of Gadsden County, and was named for
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams (; July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States S ...
.
It is located northwest of
Tallahassee
Tallahassee ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2020, the population ...
, the state capital. Quincy's economy was based on agriculture, including farming tomatoes, tobacco, mushrooms, soybeans and other crops.
According to ''The Floridian'' newspaper, in 1840 before there were public schools anywhere else in the
Florida Territory
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, there were in Quincy the Quincy Male Academy and the Quincy Female Academy.
Joshua Knowles
Joshua () or Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' Literal translation, lit. 'Yahweh is salvation') ''Yēšūaʿ''; syr, ܝܫܘܥ ܒܪ ܢܘܢ ''Yəšūʿ bar Nōn''; el, Ἰησοῦς, ar , يُوشَع ...
published the ''Quincy Sentinel'' in Quincy from November 1839 until it relocated to Tallahassee and became the ''
Florida Sentinel'' in 1841. The paper began publishing in Tallahassee in February or March 1841 as a successor to Quincy Sentinel.
Tobacco
In 1828, Governor
William P. Duval introduced Cuban
tobacco
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to the territory of Florida. As a result, the culture of shade-grown cigar wrapper tobacco was a dominant factor in the social and economic development of Gadsden County. Tobacco is a native plant of the western hemisphere. Early European explorers discovered
Native Americans growing the plant when they set foot on their soil.
In 1829, John Smith migrated to Gadsden County in covered wagons with his family and four related families. Since there was already a resident named John Smith in the community, he became known as John "Virginia" Smith. When Smith ventured southward he brought with him a type of tobacco seed which was used for chewing and pipe smoking. He planted that seed and found that the plants grew vigorously. Because there was no market for tobacco in small quantities, it was twisted together, cured and shared with his friends. He purchased some
Cuba
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n tobacco seed and planted them with his
Virginia
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tobacco. Several years passed and the two tobaccos blended.
When the Virginia tobacco was grown in Florida soil, it was much thinner and lighter in color. Smith began saving the seed from the hybridized stalks. From these seeds, a new plant known as "Florida Wrapper" was developed. So began a tobacco industry at a time when the
South
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was suffering from the low price of
cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus ''Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor perce ...
.
Growing tobacco continued to be profitable until the beginning of the
Civil War
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
in 1861, even when the European markets were no longer available. Of course, during the war and the
Reconstruction Era
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, very little tobacco was grown except for personal use. Those days were tremendously difficult, and recovery was a slow process. The post-war search for a money crop led to the resurgence of the tobacco culture. Through these experiments it was discovered that tobacco which was light in color and silky in texture demanded the highest prices. With more experimentation, shading the plants began. At first, wood slats were used, but these proved too heavy. Then they tried slats draped with cheesecloth to keep the plants from the light. Next came ribbed cheesecloth. Ultimately in 1950, the white cheesecloth was replaced with a treated, longer lasting, yellow cloth that provided perfect shade.
Colonel Henry DuVal, president of the
Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad
The Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad was the final name of a system of railroads throughout Florida, becoming part of the Seaboard Air Line Railway in 1900. The system, including some of the first railroads in Florida, stretched from Jacks ...
, shipped samples of Gadsden County tobacco to New York for leaf dealers and cigar manufacturers to inspect. Soon representatives of several companies came down from New York to purchase land for growing tobacco. There was such an influx of land purchases that a number of packing houses arose. This continued until 1970 when tobacco companies came under fire and demand diminished. Around 1970, growing tobacco declined substantially in Gadsden. The development of a homogenized cigar wrapper, the ever-increasing cost of production, the subsidizing of the tobacco culture in
Central America
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by the U.S. government, and the increasing, negative legal climate against the tobacco industry have added to the demise of Gadsden's future in tobacco. The last crop of shade-grown cigar wrapper tobacco was grown in 1977.
Quincy then turned to its other crops, tomato, mushroom and egg farms. This continued until the close of Quincy's mushroom factory and massive layoff of workers at Quincy's tomato farm in 2008. Quincy now turns to its businesses and is attempting to build itself into a business-based district.
Race relations
Lynchings
In 1929, Will Larkins was accused of an attack on a white 13 year old Quincy school girl, for which he was quickly indicted. As Larkins was being transferred he was taken by a mob of 40 masked men from Sheriff Gregory of Gadsden county, near
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and
Live Oak
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...
. When he was kidnapped by the mob he was being taken to the Duval county jail in a series of moves that newspapers claimed were for his safe keeping. After his capture by the mob Larkins was carried back to Quincy, near the railroad grade crossing, shot to death and hanged with wire, his body was then dragged through the street tied to an automobile and burned at the area where the mob thought the accused committed his crime. Though Governor
Carlton
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promised an inquiry and investigators were put on the case in late 1929, no mention of Will Larkins, except for the
NAACP
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lynching lists of 1929, is made again in newspapers of the time. Larkins was the third man lynched in Florida that year.
In 1941, A. C. Williams was accused of robbery and the attempted rape of a 12 year old white girl. The account of the details makes the accusation very improbable, but Williams did not live long enough to be tried for the crime. He was kidnapped from jail by a group of white men, and although they both shot him and hanged him, Williams survived. After learning he was alive, the sheriff formed a search party. His family was aware the sheriff had been involved in the lynching, and hid him. Unfortunately, Williams needed medical attention and since the hospitals in the Quincy area would not treat a black person, he needed to be transported to
Florida A&M University
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), commonly known as Florida A&M, is a public historically black land-grant university in Tallahassee, Florida. Founded in 1887, It is the third largest historically black university in the Un ...
in Tallahassee. The following day a group of masked men kidnapped him from the ambulance and killed him. His body was dumped on his mother's porch.
Resistance to Jim Crow
In the 1920s, blacks in Quincy including A. I. Dixie repeatedly tried to form political organizations and vote, and protest brutal labor conditions, but were suppressed by violence from whites. Dixie was flogged repeatedly for his efforts. Later, in 1964, Dixie hosted
Congress of Racial Equality
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student activists, while his daughter Linda organized a sit-in, and Jewell Dixie became the first African American to run for Gadsden County Sheriff.
All American City
In 1996, Quincy was recognized as an All American City.
''Essence'' article
In February 2003, an article in ''
Essence
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'' magazine incorrectly stated that Quincy was the city with the most
AIDS
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cases in Florida.
Some residents of the city were upset with the negative publicity.
[ "Quincy has no more AIDS cases than typical rural cities in Florida", the mayor, Keith Dowdell, stated, and the city with the highest number of AIDS cases in Florida in 2003 was Palm Beach, not Quincy. The article claimed that African-American females represented 90% of AIDS cases in Quincy, although the highest percentage of AIDS cases in Quincy at that time was in males.
]
Geography
Quincy is located in central Gadsden County at (30.59, –84.58), in the rolling hills of North Florida
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.
According to the United States Census Bureau
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, the city has a total area of , of which , or 0.18%, is water.
Climate
Demographics
2020 census
As of the 2020 United States census
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, there were 7,970 people, 2,657 households, and 1,714 families residing in the city.
2000 census
As of the census
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of 2000, there were 6,982 people, 2,657 households, and 1,830 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 2,917 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 31.55% White
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, 64.15% African American
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, 0.16% Native American, 0.23% Asian
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, 3.22% from other races
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, and 0.69% from two or more races. Hispanic
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or Latino
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people of any race were 6.89% of the population.
There were 2,657 households, out of which 30.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.2% were married couples living together, 28.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.1% were non-families. 27.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.60 and the average family size was 3.17.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 27.8% under the age of 18, 9.6% from 18 to 24, 25.7% from 25 to 44, 20.6% from 45 to 64, and 16.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 80.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 72.1 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $29,393, and the median income for a family was $31,890. Males had a median income of $27,871 versus $22,025 for females. The per capita income
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Per capita i ...
for the city was $15,133. About 16.8% of families and 19.1% of the population were below the poverty line
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, including 24.0% of those under age 18 and 23.1% of those age 65 or over.
Arts and culture
Museums and other points of interest
Several locations in Quincy have been included in the National Register of Historic Places
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, most within the boundary of the Quincy Historic District. They are:
* E. B. Shelfer House
* E. C. Love House
* John Lee McFarlin House
* Judge P. W. White House
* Old Philadelphia Presbyterian Church
* Quincy Library
The Quincy Library (also known as the Quincy Academy) is a historic library in Quincy, Florida, United States. It is located 303 North Adams Street. On September 9, 1974, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The Nat ...
* Quincy Woman's Club
* Stockton-Curry House
* Willoughby Gregory House
The Gadsden Arts Center, an AAM accredited art museum housed in the renovated 1912 Bell & Bates hardware store, with rotating regional & national art exhibitions and a permanent collection of Vernacular Art, is also situated in the Quincy Historic District.
Also notable is the Leaf Theater, which is considered a "historic cinema treasure". It is also said to be haunted.
Also notable on the outskirts of the city are the Florida A&M research and development center located on Old Bainbridge Road in the St. John community.
The Golf Club of Quincy is on Highway 268 in the Farms Community.
The North Florida Research and Education center is on Pat Thomas Parkway in Quincy.
Media
Quincy has two local papers that cover all of Gadsden County, '' The Gadsden County Times'' of Gadsden County and ''The Herald'' of the city of Havana, Florida.
Education
The Gadsden County School District
Gadsden County School District (GCPS), or Gadsden County Schools (GCS), or Gadsden County Public Schools (GCPS), is a school district headquartered in the Max D. Walker School Administration Building in Quincy, Florida. It serves Gadsden County as ...
operates area public schools.
* Carter-Parramore Academy School
* Chattahoochee Elementary School
* Crossroad Academy Charter School
* Gadsden Central Academy School
* Gadsden County High School
* Gadsden Elementary Magnet School
* Gadsden Technical Institute School
* George W. Munroe Elementary School
* Greensboro Elementary School
* Havana Magnet School
* James A. Shanks Middle School
* Stewart Street Elementary School
* West Gadsden Middle School
In 2003 James A. Shanks High School in Quincy and Havana
Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center. Northside High School consolidated into East Gadsden High School. In 2017 East Gadsden High became the only zoned high school in the county due to the consolidation of the high school section of West Gadsden High School
West Gadsden High School was a public secondary school in unincorporated Gadsden County, Florida, operated by Gadsden County School District. It is adjacent to the city of Greensboro,[Robert F. Munroe Day School
Robert F. Munroe Day School is a K-12 private school in Gadsden County, Florida, which was opened as a segregation academy in 1970.
History
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, a K–12 private school which was founded as a segregation academy
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, has its kindergarten campus, the Robert F. Munroe Day Kindergarten, in Quincy proper. The main campus for grade 1–12 in nearby Mount Pleasant.
The Gadsden County Public Library system operates the William A. "Bill" McGill Public Library.
File:Gadsden Elementary Magnet School.jpg, Gadsden Magnet Elementary School (former Quincy High School)
File:George W. Munroe Elementary School.jpg, George W. Munroe Elementary School
File:Stewart Street Elementary School, Quincy.jpg, Stewart Street Elementary School
File:Robert F. Munroe Kindergarten.jpg, Robert F. Munroe Kindergarten (private)
File:William A. McGill Library.jpg, William A. "Bill" McGill Public Library
Transportation
Highways
U.S. Route 90
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(Jefferson Street) is the main highway through the city; US 90 leads southeast to Tallahassee
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and northwest to Chattahoochee
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. The city limits extend south to beyond Interstate 10
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, which passes south of the center of the city. I-10 leads east to Tallahassee and west to Pensacola
Pensacola () is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle, and the county seat and only incorporated city of Escambia County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 54,312. Pensacola is the principal ci ...
.
Other highways in Quincy include SR 12, which leads to Havana
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; SR 267, which leads north to the Georgia
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line and south 8 miles to Wetumpka
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; and SR 268, which leads southeast to Midway.
Transit
Shuttle-bus and van transportation between Quincy and Chattahoochee, Havana, and Tallahassee is provided by Big Bend Transit, which operates three routes serving the area.
Railroad
Freight service is provided by the Florida Gulf & Atlantic Railroad
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, which acquired most of the former CSX
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main line from Pensacola to Jacksonville on June 1, 2019.
Airport
Quincy Municipal Airport is a public-use airport
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located northeast of the central business district
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.
Coca-Cola
Quincy investors were largely responsible for the development of its local Coca-Cola
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company into a worldwide conglomerate. Quincy was once rumored to be home to many millionaires due to the Coca-Cola boom. Pat Munroe, a banker, father of 18 children by two wives, and W.C. Bradley were among the stockholders of three of the banks that released 500,000 shares of new Coca-Cola common stock. They urged widows and farmers to invest for $40 each, and several did. Eventually that stock split, and made as many as 67 accounted-for investors and Gadsden County residents rich. A single share of Coca-Cola stock bought in 1919 for $40 would be worth $6.4 million today, if all dividends had been reinvested.
Notable people
* Nat Adderley Jr.
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(born 1955), music arranger who spent much of his career with Luther Vandross
* Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy (1837–1900), writer
* The Lady Chablis
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(1957–2016), born Benjamin Edward Knox,The Lady Chablis Sassy Transgender Figure in Savannah Book, Movie Dies at-59." Washington Post, Sept. 9, 2016.
Retrieved on September 12, 2016. transgender entertainer best known for her appearance in the book and subsequent movie adaptation of ''
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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''
*
Billy Dean
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He first gained national attention after appearing on the television talent competition ''Star Search''. Active as a recording artist since 1990, h ...
(born 1962), country music singer
*
Freddie Figgers (born 1989), electronics inventor and entrepreneur
*
Mack Lee Hill
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(1940–1965), football player and
American Football League
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All-Pro RB for the
Kansas City Chiefs
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The tea ...
*
Willy Holt
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(1921–2007), French-American film production designer and art director
*
Dexter Jackson (born 1977), football player and
Super Bowl XXXVII MVP
*
Nathan Kellogg McGill, attorney who represented ''
The Chicago Defender
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'' and served on the Chicago Library board in Chicago, Illinois
*
Jerrie Mock
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(1925–2014), first woman to fly solo around the world
*
Willie Simmons (born 1980), head coach of the
Florida A&M Rattlers football
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team
Gallery
File:Quincy FL downtown US90.jpg, Downtown Quincy on US90
File:Quincy Police Department.jpg, Police department
File:Quincy Fire Department.jpg, Quincy Fire Department
File:Joseph L. Ferolito Recreation Center.jpg, Joseph L. Ferolito Recreation Center
File:Quincy Post Office.jpg, Quincy Post Office
References
External links
City of Quincy official website comprehensive statistical data about Quincy
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