Blanketing "Granite City" With Snow

This view of the First Parish Church in Quincy Center is taken from the Hancock Cemetery.

Many have Walked Here

This cairn was installed on the Squaw Rock peninsula in 1895 to commemorate the landing of Captain Myles Standish and his men in 1621. They were guided by native, Squanto, for whom Squantum got it's name. Squanto is said to have saved the Pilgrims from starvation during their 2nd winter in Plymouth. The cairn is made from local beach rocks and Quincy granite.

Abigail Adams Cairn

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The Abigail Adams Cairn was erected in 1896 to mark the spot from which Abigail Adams and young son. John Quincy Adams, watched the smoke of burning Charlestown and heard the sound of the guns of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. As late as 1904, one could still see from Penn's Hill the blue waters of Dorchester Bay, the present city of Charlestown, and the tall shaft of Bunker Hill Monument. The Abigail Adams Cairn is approximately ten feet high by four-and-a-half feet in diameter field stone and mortar cairn located on Penn's Hill in South Quincy. Many adults and children gathered stones from their own properties or obtained them from historic sites and birthplaces to have them placed in the cairn.
There are several similar cairns in Quincy: the Myles Standish Cairn, erected one year earlier in 1895 and the twin entrance posts to St. Mary's Cemetery on Crescent Street.

Adams Academy

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In 1872, prominent Boston architects, Ware and Van Brunt, designed this handsome brick and granite "Stone School House" opened as a classic academy providing a high caliber education focusing on the classics to prepare students for higher education at Harvard College. The Academy closed in 1907, but stands as a monument to John Adams and his interest in education and devotion to the people of Quincy. The leader and first signer of the Declaration of Independence, John Hancock,was born at this site.

Today, this beautiful building serves as a museum, library and home to the Quincy Historical Society. It is located at 8 Adams Street and is included on the National Register of Historic Places.

Thursday is "This Old House Day"

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The historic 1770 "Quincy House" is undergoing some maintenance and restoration work. The house was originally built as a country estate and was surrounded by fields and pasture overlooking Quincy Bay. It boasts an unusual monitor roof, the oldest known example of this roof style to survive from the original colonies. Its elegant architectural details, including a Chinese fretwork balustrade and classical portico, befit the status of the man who built it, the Revolutionary leader Colonel Josiah Quincy. It was in the attic of this house that Josiah and George (Washington) watched and reported on the movement of British troops in Boston Harbor. The Quincy family was as prominent as the Adams family in early Massachusetts history. The family produced 3 mayors of Boston and a president of Harvard College. This house located at 20 Muirhead Street, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is worth visiting.

National Women's History Month

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This marker on Beale Street in Wollaston, marks the home of one of America's first feminists, Anne Hutchinson. She has been honored by placement of a statue of her located outside the State House in Boston.
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This marker reads: "This and the neighboring Wollaston Hills were part of the original grant of 600 acres made by the town of Boston to William Hutchinson in 1636-7. His house stood near this spot: And to it came his wife, Anne Hutchinson. On the seventeenth of April, 1638, when exiled from Massachusetts by the general court of the colony, and here she tarried for a brief space while on her way to Rhode Island. This tablet placed A.D. 1894."