19 Facts About Quincy Massachusetts

Quincy Massachusetts was sent back to England, only to return and be arrested by Puritans the next year.

The area of Quincy Massachusetts now called Merrymount is located on the site of the original English settlement of 1625 and takes its name from the punning name given by Morton.

Quincy Massachusetts's population grew by over 50 percent during the 1920s.

Quincy Massachusetts granite became famous throughout the nation, and stonecutting became the city's principal economic activity.

Quincy Massachusetts was home to the first iron furnace in the United States, the John Winthrop Jr.

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Quincy Massachusetts is home to the United States' longest-running Flag Day parade, a tradition that began in 1952 under Richard Koch, a former director of Parks and Recreation, who started the "Koch Club" sports organization for kids and had an annual parade with flags.

Quincy Massachusetts's territory includes Hangman Island, Moon Island, Nut Island, and Raccoon Island in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area.

At that time, Quincy Massachusetts had a higher Asian population than the Boston Chinatown.

Quincy Massachusetts is divided into numerous neighborhoods with individual histories and characteristics.

In 2010, the city of Quincy Massachusetts was the first in the US to have its police department carry the nasal spray Narcan to combat the overdose outbreak associated with the opioid epidemic in the US.

In 2017, overdose deaths in the city and the Commonwealth of Quincy Massachusetts had declined, it was thought, due to the use of naloxone by the police and others.

Quincy Massachusetts is home to various educational institutions, public and private, including one early childhood education center, one Montessori school, one Catholic school, one college-preparatory school, two colleges, Eastern Nazarene College, a private liberal arts and sciences college, and Quincy Massachusetts College, a public, localized college, two public high schools, five public middle schools, and 12 public elementary schools.

Four years after its implementation, a state survey found that Quincy Massachusetts students excelled at reading, writing, and spelling, and ranked fourth in their county in math.

Interstate 93 and U S Route 1 travel south to north concurrently through Quincy beginning in the southwest, where the Quincy–Randolph border bisects the median between the northern and southern halves of the Exit 5 cloverleaf at Massachusetts Route 28.

Buses are available for transportation in Quincy Massachusetts, including private bus lines and several lines provided by the MBTA.

Quincy Massachusetts was a major terminal for the commuter boat system that crosses Boston Harbor to Long Wharf, Hull, Rowe's Wharf, Hingham, and Logan Airport.

Quincy Massachusetts has had several football teams in the semi-pro Eastern Football League over the years.

The current club, the Quincy Massachusetts Militia, played its inaugural season in the EFL in 2009.

An earlier team, the Quincy Massachusetts Giants, played in the minor league Atlantic Coast Football League between 1969 and 1971.