unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
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Monroe County, Mississippi
Monroe County is a county on the northeast border of the U.S. state of Mississippi next to Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 34,180. Its county seat is Aberdeen.
History
The county is named in honor of James Monroe, the fi ...
, United States.
Quincy is located approximately 8 miles east of Amory on U.S. Route 278. This is the geography wherein the wrongful lynching of Jennie Steers (1903) according to a YouTube video posted on the Julian Johnson Law page.
History
Quincy is located along the
BNSF Railway
BNSF Railway is the largest freight railroad in the United States. One of six North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 36,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and over 8,000 locomotives. It has three Transcontinental railroad, transcontine ...
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In 1900, Quincy had a church and population of 32.
A post office operated under the name Quincy from 1827 to 1956.