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Quincy (City in Norfolk co Mass)

a city in Norfolk co., Mass.; at the mouth of the Quincy river where it enters Quincy Bay, and on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad; 8 miles S. E. of Boston. It comprises nearly a dozen villages. Here are the Adams Academy for Boys, Woodward Institute for Girls, Thomas Crane Public Library, city hospital, waterworks, electric street railroads, electric lights, National, co-operative, -operative, and savings banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. The city contains quarries of the celebrated Quincy granite, which is shipped to nearly all parts of the United States. It also has a large boot and shoe industry. Quincy is noted as the birthplace of John Hancock, of John Adams and John Quincy Adams, Presidents of the United States. Pop. (1910) 32,642; (1920) 47,611.