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96-729: The John Adams Birthplace is a historic house at 133 Franklin Street in Quincy , Massachusetts . It is the saltbox home in which Founding Father and second president of the United States , John Adams , was born in 1735. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . It is now administered by the National Park Service as part of

192-503: A GED . Prior to European colonization , the region around Dorchester was inhabited by the indigenous Massachusett . They lived in settlements established alongside the Neponset River estuary, which was a plentiful source of fish, including trout; they also gathered shellfish from the riverbed, and hunted beaver and deer. They established farms in nearby hills. During the initial period of colonization by Puritan settlers ,

288-590: A base in New York's Manhattan and Long Island. Originally part of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, the town of Dorchester removed from Suffolk County to Norfolk County when it was created on March 26, 1793. Portions of Dorchester annexed in the 19th century by Hyde Park , Milton or Quincy remained within Norfolk County. Portions annexed by Boston (eventually including Hyde Park) became part of Suffolk County again. In Victorian times, Dorchester became

384-583: A campaign to convert the Indigenous people in Dorchester to Christianity with the help of Cockenoe and John Sassamon , two Indian servants in the town. Eliot was given land by the town of Dorchester for his mission, where he established a church and school. The James Blake House , oldest surviving home in the city of Boston, is located at Edward Everett Square . This is the historic intersection of Columbia Road, Boston Street, and Massachusetts Avenue,

480-593: A city rather than by the state . It is one of only two colleges in the United States organized this way. Public education at the primary and secondary levels is managed by Quincy Public Schools , a system that includes one early childhood center, eleven elementary schools, five middle schools and two high schools. Private and alternative education institutions for children in preschool through 8th grade include Quincy's three Catholic parochial schools — Sacred Heart, St. Ann, and St. Mary. The Archdiocese of Boston decided to merge these three schools to form

576-621: A few blocks from the Dorchester Historical Society . The Blake House was constructed in 1661, as was confirmed by dendrochronology in 2007. In 1695, a party was dispatched to found the town of Dorchester, South Carolina . It lasted a half-century before being abandoned. In 1765, Irish chocolate maker John Hannon (or alternatively spelled "Hannan" in some sources) imported beans from the West Indies and refined them in Dorchester. He thus introduced chocolate to

672-575: A higher Asian population than the Boston Chinatown. The overall Asian population increased by 64% in the following decade, to 22,174 in 2010. Quincy's Chinese population increased by 60% during that time period. Historically, Quincy residents traveled to shops in Chinatown, Boston , but by 2003 Asian shopping centers became established in Quincy. By 2003, New York City-based Kam Man Food

768-539: A hill called Moswetuset Hummock prior to the settlement of the area by English colonists, situated east of the mouth of the Neponset River near what is now called Squantum . It was visited in 1621 by Plymouth Colony commander Myles Standish and Squanto , a native guide. Four years later, a party led by Captain Richard Wollaston established a post on a low hill near the south shore of Quincy Bay east of present-day Black's Creek. The settlers found

864-679: A lack of trust within the Asian-American community. The City gradually increased its outreach to its Asian-American communities and developed multicultural programming showcasing immigrant cultures to help familiarize the larger community with its new neighbors and promote community integration. Racial tensions gradually diminished, and by 2003, the Quincy Police Department had prioritized the diversification of their force, employing multiple Asian-American officers . In 2003, Quincy Asian Resources Inc. planned to establish

960-443: A magnet, according to [friend and roommate John] Bustamante, with 'untold numbers of visitors coming from the other schools.' The roommates housed and fed the visitors, who would join in civil rights discussions." During the 1960s–1980s, the ethnic landscape of Dorchester changed dramatically . The descendants of early 20th-century Jewish, Italian, and Irish immigrants had become more established and generally moved to newer housing in

1056-491: A newsletter for Asian residents. In 2011, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, Inc. (BCNC; 波士頓華埠社區中心 ) began offering services in Quincy. Quincy is divided into numerous neighborhoods with individual histories and characteristics. During its history Quincy has been known as a manufacturing and heavy industry center, with granite quarrying dominating employment in the 19th century and shipbuilding at Fore River Shipyard and Squantum Victory Yard rising to prominence in

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1152-495: A number of reused timbers dating to the 1670s." John , the oldest son of Deacon John , was born in the east room on October 30 (October 19 O.S. ), 1735. Upon the Deacon's death in 1761, the house passed to his second son, Peter; the younger John received the house next door , where John Quincy Adams was born to John and Abigail Adams in 1767. Peter lived in the house with his mother until 1768, when he married. In 1774 he sold

1248-653: A peninsula), and Raccoon Island in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area . According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 26.9 square miles (70 km ), of which 16.8 square miles (44 km ) is land and 10.1 square miles (26 km ) is water. The total area is 37.60% water. Although Quincy is primarily urban, 2,485 acres (3.9 sq mi; 10.1 km ) or fully 23 percent of its land area lies within

1344-493: A popular country retreat for Boston elite. It developed into a bedroom community, easily accessible to the city by streetcar for commuters. The mother and grandparents of John F. Kennedy lived in the Ashmont Hill neighborhood during the period that his grandfather John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald was mayor of Boston. American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes , wrote a poem called "The Dorchester Giant" in 1830. He referred to

1440-557: A private liberal arts and sciences college that is currently in the process of closing after the 24-25 school year, and Quincy College , a public community college, two public high schools , five public middle schools , and 12 public elementary schools . In the 19th century, the city became an innovator in progressive public education with the Quincy Method , developed by Francis W. Parker while he served as Quincy's superintendent of schools . Four years after its implementation,

1536-630: A state survey found that Quincy students excelled at reading, writing, and spelling, and ranked fourth in their county in math. The city is home to Eastern Nazarene College , a former college of the liberal arts and sciences located in Wollaston Park . The college relocated to the area in 1919 from its original location in Saratoga Springs, New York , where it was established as a " holiness college" in 1900. In June 2024, The Board of Trustees of Eastern Nazarene College announced that

1632-447: A woefull mount and not a merry mount", in reference to the fact that they disapproved of his libertine practices. In 1627, Morton was arrested by Standish for violating the code of conduct in a way harmful to the colony. He was sent back to England, only to return and be arrested by Puritans the next year. The area of Quincy now called Merrymount is located on the site of the original English settlement of 1625 and takes its name from

1728-476: Is often divided for statistical purposes into North and South Dorchester. North Dorchester includes the portion north of Quincy, East and Freeport streets. The main business district in this part of Dorchester is Uphams Corner , at the intersection of Dudley Street and Columbia Road. South Dorchester is bordered to the east by Dorchester Bay and to the south by the Neponset River . The main business districts in this part of Dorchester are Fields Corner , at

1824-428: Is primarily a residential area, with established neighborhoods still defined by parishes, and occupied by families for generations. The northern part of Dorchester is more urban, with a greater amount of apartment housing and industrial parks. South Bay and Newmarket industrial area are major sources of employment. The Harbor Point area (formerly known as Columbia Point ) is home of several large employers, including

1920-580: Is still preserved at Fore River as the main exhibit of the United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum . John J. Kilroy, reputed originator of the famous Kilroy was here graffiti, was a rivet inspector at Fore River. Quincy was also an aviation pioneer thanks to Dennison Field. Located in the Squantum section of town it was one of the world's first airports and was partially developed by Amelia Earhart . In 1910, it

2016-465: Is three bays wide with the entry in the center. The doorway is framed by pilasters and topped by an entablature and triangular pediment. The land on which the house sits was first owned by William Needham, who built a house on the property c. 1681. President John Adams refers to the fact that his father built the house in a letter to Benjamin Rush of July 19, 1812. The framing of the east side incorporates

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2112-593: The 2020 United States Census , there were 101,636 people and 46,789 households, making it the eighth-largest city in the state. The population density was 6,137.6 inhabitants per square mile (2,369.7/km ). There were 51,156 housing units. The racial makeup of the city was 56.2% White (non-Hispanic), 6.4% African American alone, 0.1% Native American alone, 28.9% Asian alone (15.6% Chinese , 3.2% Vietnamese , 2.6% Indian ), 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander , 0.85% from other races, and 5.3% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.4% of

2208-532: The Adams National Historical Park , and is open for guided tours. The house, a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 story wood-frame structure sheathed in wooden clapboards, is a classic New England home with two lower and two upper rooms built around a massive central chimney. Extensive alterations were made over the years, including the building of a lean-to in the 18th century that added two downstairs rooms and two small upper chambers. The main facade

2304-653: The Harrison Square Historic District , later known as Clam Point.) Renowned architects who contributed to one of the most significant and intact collections of Clam Point's Italianate mansards include Luther Briggs, John A. Fox, and Mary E. Noyes . By the 1890s, Clam Point gained prominence as a summer resort: the Russell House hotel was its centerpiece and the Dorchester Yacht Club was established on Freeport Street. In

2400-595: The Massachusetts House of Representatives represent Quincy: Bruce Ayers ( 1st Norfolk district ), Tackey Chan ( 2nd Norfolk district ), and Ronald Mariano ( 3rd Norfolk district ). Each representative is a Democrat, and Mariano is the speaker of the House. Quincy is home to various educational institutions, public and private, including a Montessori school , a Catholic academy, and one independent college-preparatory school . Eastern Nazarene College ,

2496-544: The National Park Service . They are open for guided tours. Quincy, Massachusetts Quincy ( / ˈ k w ɪ n z i / KWIN -zee ) is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts , United States. It is the largest city in the county. Quincy is part of the Greater Boston area as one of Boston 's immediate southern suburbs. Its population in 2020 was 101,636, making it the seventh-largest city in

2592-545: The state . Known as the “ City of Presidents ,” Quincy is the birthplace of two U.S. presidents — John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams — as well as John Hancock , the first signer of the Declaration of Independence and the first and third governor of Massachusetts. First settled in 1625, Quincy was briefly part of Dorchester before becoming the North Precinct of Braintree in 1640. In 1792, Quincy

2688-466: The 1870s, the city gave its name to the Quincy Method , an influential approach to education developed by Francis W. Parker while he served as Quincy's superintendent of schools . Parker, an early proponent of progressive education , put his ideas into practice in the city's underperforming schools; four years later, a state survey found that Quincy's students were excelling. Many of Quincy’s teachers were recruited by districts in other states, spreading

2784-473: The 1880s, the calf pasture on Columbia Point was developed for a Boston sewer line and pumping station. This large pumping station still stands. In its time it was a model for treating sewage and helping to promote cleaner and healthier urban living conditions. It pumped waste to a remote treatment facility on Moon Island in Boston Harbor , and served as a model for other systems worldwide. This system

2880-757: The 1960s, the Blue Hill Avenue part of Dorchester from Roxbury to Mattapan was primarily composed of Jewish Americans whose ancestors had immigrated from eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Neponset neighborhood was primarily Irish-American, most of whom were Catholic. During the 1920s–1960s, many African Americans moved from the South to the North during the Great Migration and settled on Blue Hill Avenue and nearby sections. While some Jewish-Americans were moving "up and out" to

2976-877: The 20th century. The recent decades have seen a shift in focus to several large employers in the professional and service sector of the economy. Quincy is the location of the corporate headquarters of several firms, including Boston Financial Data Services , the Stop & Shop supermarket chain, Arbella Insurance Group and The Patriot Ledger , the publisher of the South Shore 's largest regional newspaper. Other major employers with offices in Quincy are State Street Corporation , Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts , Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Boston Scientific . TACV , national flag carrier airline of Cape Verde , has its United States corporate office in Quincy. Icelandair has its North American headquarters in

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3072-637: The Advancement of Colored People . Many leading suffragettes also lived in Dorchester, including Lucy Stone . In the early 20th century, Dorchester received numerous Catholic immigrants from a variety of nations, such as Ireland, French Canada, Italy, and Poland. In addition, it was a destination for thousands of mostly Protestant African Americans from the South who were making the Great Migration to northern industrial cities for work opportunities and to escape Jim Crow violence. Numerous three-decker apartment buildings were built in Dorchester to house

3168-585: The Asian immigrants coming in the 1980s originated from Hong Kong and Taiwan. In 1990, Quincy had 5,577 persons of Asian origin, with 143 of them being of East Indian origin. The number of Asians increased to 13,546 in 2000, with about 9,000 of them being ethnic Chinese, and 1,127 of them being ethnic East Indian. The latter group grew by 688%, making it the fastest-growing Asian subgroup in Quincy. Around 2003, most Asian immigrants were coming from Fujian instead of Hong Kong and Taiwan . At that time, Quincy had

3264-1014: The Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts , the Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum , the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate , and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum . Distinct commercial districts include Bowdoin/Geneva, Fields Corner, Codman Square, Peabody Square, Adams Village and Lower Mills. Primarily residential areas include Savin Hill , Jones Hill, Four Corners, Franklin Field, Franklin Hill, Ashmont , Meeting House Hill, Neponset, Popes Hill and Port Norfolk. Up until

3360-593: The Caribbean and Central America, such as Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. Immigrants also came from Cape Verde and Vietnam, as well as other Latin American, Asian, and African nations. Dorchester also continued to receive immigrants from Northern European countries such as Ireland, Germany and Poland. Dorchester became more diverse than at any point in its long history, with many nationalities represented here. These immigrants have helped revive

3456-589: The Chinese were homeowners, while only 10% of the East Indians were homeowners. As of 2003, slightly more than 2,500 Asian Americans in Quincy were registered to vote, making up almost 25% of Asians in the city who were eligible to vote. In the 1980s, the city experienced significant racial tensions and violence directed toward Southeast Asian and Chinese residents. At this time, the Quincy Police Department did not employ any AAPI police officers, which led to

3552-643: The City's library network, which is part of the regional Old Colony Library Network . Several Chinese community organizations in Quincy have offered after-school and weekend instruction in Mandarin and Cantonese to local youth over the years. The Quincy Chinese Language School and The Chung Yee School are no longer in operation. In 2016, The South Shore Chinese Language School began offering popular weekend classes in Mandarin and Cantonese to children ages 5 and up at

3648-715: The English West Country , and some from Dorchester, Dorset , where Rev. John White was chief proponent of a Puritan settlement in the Americas. The town developed around the First Parish Church of Dorchester . The building is now operated as the Unitarian-Universalist church on Meeting House Hill and is the oldest religious organization in present-day Boston. On October 8, 1633, the first Town Meeting in what would become

3744-557: The Geiger-Gibson Community Health Center. In 1974, the University of Massachusetts Boston moved from Park Square in downtown Boston to Columbia Point in Dorchester. In 1982, Boston State College was incorporated into UMass Boston. Since the 1970s, UMass Boston has expanded substantially, including building a new campus center in 2004 and a new science center in 2015. It has also hosted numerous important social and civic events. In 2000, for example,

3840-732: The Lemuel Robinson Tavern, which stood on the east side of the upper road (Washington St.) near the present Fuller Street. Lemuel Robinson was a representative of the town during the Revolution and was appointed a colonel in the Revolutionary army." Dorchester (in a part of what is now South Boston) was also the site of the Battle of Dorchester Heights in 1776. As a result, the British evacuated Boston , pulling back to

3936-519: The Massachusett suffered a rapid decline in population due to the introduction of foreign infectious diseases to which they had no acquired immunity and violence related to settler colonialism . The Massachusett sachem , Chickatawbut , negotiated land treaties with the Puritan settlers before dying of smallpox in 1633. His brother, Cutshamekin , who succeeded him, deeded further land to

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4032-565: The Neponset River; Richard Callicott founded a trading post nearby. In 1641, Dorcas ye blackmore , an enslaved servant to Israel Stoughton , was the first recorded African American to join a church in New England. She served as an evangelist to Stoughton's Native American servants, and the First Parish Church of Dorchester attempted to help Dorcas gain her freedom. In 1649, Puritan missionaries, including John Eliot , began

4128-650: The North American colonies, and was working with Dr. James Baker, an American physician and investor. They opened America's first chocolate mill and factory in the Lower Mills section of Dorchester on the Neponset River. The Walter Baker Chocolate Factory, part of Walter Baker & Company , operated until 1965. Before the American Revolution , "The Sons of Liberty met in August 1769 at

4224-487: The Quincy Catholic Academy, which opened in 2010 on the site of the former Sacred Heart school. The Woodward School for Girls , opened in 1894, is an independent school offering a college-preparatory education to girls in grades 6–12. The Adams Montessori School is open to children of preschool through elementary school age. The Thomas Crane Public Library serves as the flagship library of

4320-524: The Quincy City Council announced they would defer sizable raises passed in June until after the 2028 election cycle. The Quincy Police Department was formed in 1888, currently headquartered at the original Quincy Police Station which was built in 1925 as the city's first purpose-built police station and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. In 2010, the city of Quincy

4416-761: The Quincy Fire Department, which was founded in 1889 and includes the Central Fire Station , which is on the National Register of Historic Places and is still active as of 2023. The city's Emergency Medical Services are privately contracted, with ambulance response being handled by Brewster Ambulance Service since 2015. Quincy is represented in the Massachusetts State Senate by Democrat John F. Keenan ( Norfolk and Plymouth district ). Three members of

4512-591: The Quincy YMCA. Dorchester, Boston The neighborhood is named after the town of Dorchester in Dorset , from which Puritans emigrated to the New World on the ship Mary and John , among others. Founded in 1630, just a few months before the founding of the city of Boston, Dorchester now covers a geographic area approximately equivalent to nearby Cambridge . When annexed to Boston in 1870, Dorchester

4608-485: The Quincy method beyond Massachusetts to New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Florida, Minnesota, and other places. Quincy was additionally important as a shipbuilding center. Sailing ships were built in Quincy for many years, including the only seven-masted schooner ever built, Thomas W. Lawson . The Fore River area became a shipbuilding center in the 1880s; founded by Thomas A. Watson , who became wealthy as assistant to Alexander Graham Bell in developing

4704-589: The US developed their own Narcan-dispensing programs based on the model pioneered by the Quincy PD. In 2017, overdose deaths in the city and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had declined, it was thought, due to the use of naloxone by the police and others. The state legislature, in 2018, required all pharmacies to keep Narcan in stock and available to anyone, without a prescription. Fire emergencies are handled by

4800-581: The United States was held in Dorchester. Today, October 8 is annually celebrated as Town Meeting Day in Massachusetts. Dorchester is the birthplace of the first public elementary school in America, the Mather School , established in 1639. The school still stands as the oldest elementary school in the United States. In 1634 Israel Stoughton built one of the earliest grist mills in America on

4896-578: The United States' first commercial railroad. Shipbuilding at the Fore River Shipyard was another key contributor to the city's economy. In the 20th century, both Howard Johnson's and Dunkin' Donuts were founded in the city. The road that eventually became the Old Coast Road from Boston to Plymouth , going through Quincy and Braintree, started out as a native american trail. Massachusett sachem Chickatawbut had his seat on

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4992-515: The area suitable for farming, as Chickatawbut and his group had cleared much of the land of trees. (The Indians used the name Passonagessit ("Little Neck of Land") for the area. ) This settlement was named Mount Wollaston in honor of the leader, who left the area soon after 1625, bound for Virginia . The Wollaston neighborhood in Quincy still retains Captain Wollaston's name. Upon the departure of Wollaston, Thomas Morton took over leadership of

5088-413: The city as well. Data is from the 2009–2013 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Quincy has a strong mayor government . The incumbent mayor, Thomas P. Koch , has served since 2008; he is the 33rd mayor of the city . Mayors in the city were elected to two-year terms. In 2013, the city's voters opted to extend the mayoral term to four years, beginning after the 2015 election. In addition to

5184-464: The city was $ 53,082. About 7.3% of families and 9.8% of the population were below the poverty line , including 15.2% of those under age 18 and 11.1% of those age 65 or over. As of 2010, Quincy has the highest per capita concentration of persons of Asian origin in Massachusetts. As of 2003 about 66% of the Asians in Quincy are ethnic Chinese , giving the city one of the largest Chinese populations in

5280-410: The city's Wollaston neighborhood in 1996. Quincy is also 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 shares borders with Boston to the north (separated by the Neponset River ), Milton to

5376-484: The earliest cession of Dorchester to Boston in 1804. Additional parts of Dorchester were ceded to Quincy (in 1792, 1814, 1819, and 1855). Portions of the original town of Dorchester developed as the separate towns of Hyde Park (1868 and later annexed to Boston in 1912), Milton (1662), and Stoughton (1726, itself later subdivided). In 1895, Frederick Law Olmsted , architect of the Boston Public Garden / Emerald Necklace in Boston and Central Park in New York City,

5472-413: The economy of the neighborhood by opening ethnic stores and restaurants. The sections of Dorchester have distinct ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic compositions. The eastern areas of Dorchester (especially between Adams Street and Dorchester Bay) are primarily ethnic European and Asian , with a large population of Irish Americans and Vietnamese Americans . Residents of the western, central and parts of

5568-425: The faculty of Harvard University and later at Tufts University ; and Count Gibson from Tufts University. Geiger had previously studied the first community health centers and the principles of Community Oriented Primary Care with Sidney Kark and colleagues while serving as a medical student in rural Natal , South Africa . The Columbia Point Health Center is still operating and was rededicated in 1990 as

5664-421: The first Sunday in June, and the Community Banquet. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Dorchester was a site for community activism related to diverse issues. The first racially integrated neighborhood developed on Jones Hill. One of the residents of that neighborhood, William Monroe Trotter , with W.E.B. Du Bois , helped to found the Niagara Movement , the precursor of the National Association for

5760-418: The founding of a new nation. The original settlement founded in 1630 was at what is now the intersection of Columbia Road and Massachusetts Avenue . (Even though Dorchester was annexed more than 100 years ago into the city of Boston, residents still annually celebrate the founding on Dorchester Day. This includes festivities and a parade down Dorchester Avenue ). Most of the early Dorchester settlers came from

5856-399: The house to his brother John, who rented it out after their mother died in 1780. In 1803 John sold both houses to his son, who lived in the house of his birth, and rented this one out. The house was occupied from 1810 to 1818 by John Quincy Adams' son, Thomas Boylston Adams . Both houses remained in Adams family ownership, and were rented out until 1885, when most of the surrounding farmland

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5952-433: The institution was preparing a plan to take steps toward closure, with the goal of closing the College at the end of the 2024-2025 school year. The future of its campus is uncertain as of November 2024. Quincy College , a community college in Quincy Center , operates under the auspices of the City of Quincy. The college is unusual in this respect, as it is the only one of Massachusetts' 16 community colleges to be run by

6048-496: The intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Adams Street, and Codman Square , at the intersection of Washington Street and Talbot Avenue. Adjacent to Fields Corner is the Harrison Square Historic District , also known as Clam Point. It is notable for its collection of substantial Italianate mansard residences. Dorchester Avenue is the major neighborhood spine, running in a south–north line through all of Dorchester from Lower Mills to downtown Boston. The southern part of Dorchester

6144-416: The later 20th century have come from the Caribbean Caribbean , Central and South America, and East and Southeast Asian Americans . Dorchester also has a significant LGBT population, with active political groups. It has the largest concentration of same-sex couples in Boston after the neighborhoods of South End and Jamaica Plain. Most of the people over the age of 25 have completed high school or obtained

6240-461: The many industrial workers. In the early 1950s, Dorchester became a center of civil rights activism by African Americans, who were constrained by de facto segregation in Boston. Martin Luther King Jr. lived there for much of the time he attended Boston University for his PhD. "With Boston's Baptist community riveted by his preaching and Coretta [Scott King] at his side, King's circle grew. The Dorchester apartment drew friends and followers like

6336-433: The mayor, the city has a nine-member city council, with Ian Cain serving as president as of 2024. Six councilors are elected to represent Quincy's wards, and three are elected at large. Councilors serve two-year terms. The city also has a school committee with seven members—the mayor and six members elected to staggered four-year terms. In the fall of 2024, responding to public pressure, Mayor Thomas Koch and nine members of

6432-401: The northeast, is part of Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay . There are several beaches in Quincy, including Wollaston Beach along Quincy Shore Drive . Located on the western shore of Quincy Bay, Wollaston Beach is the largest Boston Harbor beach. Quincy's territory includes Hangman Island , Moon Island (restricted access, and all land is owned by the City of Boston), Nut Island (now

6528-514: The population. 33.5% were of Irish, 12.7% Italian and 5.0% English ancestry according to the 2000 Census . 58.1% spoke only English, while 8.0% spoke Chinese or Mandarin , 2.6% Cantonese , 1.9% Spanish, 1.5% Vietnamese and 1.3% Italian in their homes. Of the city's 46,789 households, approximately 56.6% were married couples living together, 12.5% had a female householder with no spouse present, 5.2% were male householders with no spouse present, and 25.8% were non-families. 50.1% of Quincy's population

6624-404: The post. Morton's history of conflict with the Plymouth settlement and his free-thinking ideals antagonized the Plymouth settlement, who maligned the colony and accused it of debauchery with Indian women and drunkenness . Morton renamed the settlement Ma-re-Mount ("Hill by the Sea") and later wrote that the conservative separatists of Plymouth Colony to the south were "threatening to make it

6720-484: The public on March 31, 2015. Dorchester is located south of downtown Boston and is surrounded by the neighborhoods of South Boston , Roxbury , Jamaica Plain , Hyde Park and South End , the city of Quincy and the town of Milton . The Neponset River separates Dorchester from Quincy and Milton. Dorchester is Boston's largest and most populous neighborhood. It comprises many smaller sections and squares. Due to its size of about six square miles (16 km ), it

6816-432: The punning name given by Morton. The area was first incorporated as part of Dorchester in 1630 and was briefly annexed by Boston in 1634. The area became Braintree in 1640, bordered along the coast of Massachusetts Bay by Dorchester to the north and Weymouth to the east. Beginning in 1708, the modern border of Quincy first took shape as the North Precinct of Braintree. Following the American Revolution , Quincy

6912-474: The railroad was "the beginning of a trend toward suburbanization ". Quincy became as accessible to Boston as was Charlestown . The first suburban land company, Bellevue Land Co., had been organized in northern Quincy in 1870. Quincy's population grew by over 50 percent during the 1920s. Among the city's several firsts was the Granite Railway , the first commercial railroad in the United States. It

7008-616: The settlers. The remaining Massachusett in the region, including Cutshamekin, accepted some Christianity as a form of survivance . They eventually resettled in the Praying Town of Natick . In 1623 a syndicate of Dorsetshire fishermen organized an outport of fishing stages and flakes at Dorchester. In 1626 David Thompson settled his family on Thompson Island in what is now Dorchester before Boston's Puritan migration wave began in 1630. On May 30, 1630, Captain Squib of

7104-515: The ship Mary and John entered Boston Harbor . On June 17, 1630, he landed a boat with eight men on the Dorchester shore, at what was then a narrow peninsula known as Mattapan or Mattaponnock. Today it is known as Columbia Point (more popularly since 1984 as Harbor Point). Those aboard the ship who founded the town included William Phelps , Roger Ludlowe , John Mason , John Maverick, Nicholas Upsall , Capt. Roger Fyler, William Gaylord, Henry Wolcott, and other men who would become prominent in

7200-764: The special kind of stone, "Roxbury puddingstone" , quarried in Dorchester, which was used to build churches in the Boston area. Most notable of these is the Central Congregational Church (later called the Church of the Covenant ) in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. In 1845, the Old Colony Railroad ran through the area and connected Boston and Plymouth, Massachusetts . The station was originally called Crescent Avenue or Crescent Avenue Depot as an Old Colony Railroad station. The name

7296-440: The state. There is also a community of persons of East Indian origins , with most of them working in information technology and other skilled professions. A growing number of people with Vietnamese origins live in the area as well and make up the second largest Asian American group in Quincy; it is estimated that nearly 4,000 Vietnamese people live in the city. In 1980, there were 750 persons of Asian origin in Quincy. Most of

7392-409: The suburbs, certain Boston banks and real estate companies developed a blockbusting plan for the area. The Blue Hill Avenue area was " redlined " so that only the newly arriving African Americans would receive mortgages for housing in that section. "White flight" was prevalent. After changes to US immigration law in 1965, Dorchester received new waves of migrants from Puerto Rico, and immigrants from

7488-582: The suburbs. Newer African, Asian, and Caribbean immigrants and their descendants settled here in the older housing in a succession of ethnicities. The first community health center in the United States was the Columbia Point Health Center in Dorchester. It was opened in December 1965 and served mostly the massive Columbia Point public housing complex adjoining it. It was founded by two medical doctors, Jack Geiger , who had been on

7584-407: The telephone, many famous warships were built at the Fore River Shipyard . Amongst these were the aircraft carrier USS  Lexington  (CV-2) ; the battleships USS  Massachusetts  (BB-59) , now preserved as a museum ship at Battleship Cove in Massachusetts, and USS  Nevada  (BB-36) ; and USS  Salem  (CA-139) , the world's last all-gun heavy warship, which

7680-619: The uninhabited Blue Hills Reservation , a state park managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation . This undeveloped natural area encompasses the southwestern portion of Quincy and includes the city's highest point, 517-foot (158 m) Chickatawbut Hill. Other hills within Quincy include Forbes Hill in Wollaston, Presidents Hill in Quincy Center and Penns Hill in South Quincy. As of

7776-469: The university hosted a presidential candidates’ debate between George W. Bush and Al Gore . In 1977, after an unsuccessful bid by Cambridge to have the John F. Kennedy Library located there, close to the late president's alma mater Harvard University , a site was chosen at the tip of Columbia Point and ground was broken. Designed by architect I. M. Pei , the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

7872-549: The west, Randolph and Braintree to the south, and Weymouth (separated by the Fore River ) and Hull (maritime border between Quincy Bay and Hingham Bay ) to the east. Historically, before incorporation when it was called "Mount Wollaston" and later as the "North Precinct" of Braintree, Quincy roughly began at the Neponset River in the north and ended at the Fore River in the south. Quincy Bay, within city limits to

7968-406: Was annexed by Boston in pieces beginning on March 6, 1804, and ending with complete annexation to the city of Boston after a plebiscite was held in Boston and Dorchester on June 22, 1869. As a result, Dorchester officially became part of Boston on January 3, 1870. This is the historic reason that Dorchester Heights is today considered part of South Boston, not modern-day Dorchester. It was part of

8064-564: Was changed to Columbia, which lasted until December 1, 1982. It was then changed again, to JFK/UMASS . It is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority rail line station for both the Red Line subway and the Plymouth/Kingston , Middleborough/Lakeville and Greenbush commuter rail lines. In the 1840s and 1850s, a new wave of development took place on a strip of waterfront overlooking Dorchester Bay (Park and Mill streets at

8160-671: Was commissioned to create Dorchester Park . It was intended as an urban forest for the residents of a growing Dorchester. In 1904, the Dorchester Historical Society incorporated "Dorchester Day", which commemorated the settlement of Dorchester in 1630. Celebrated annually, Dorchester Day is a tableau of community events, highlighted by such activities as the Landing Day Observance, the Dorchester Day Parade along Dorchester Avenue

8256-737: Was constructed in 1826 to carry granite from a Quincy quarry to the Neponset River in Milton so that the stone could then be taken by boat to erect the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown. Quincy granite became famous throughout the nation, and stonecutting became the city's principal economic activity. Quincy was also home to the first iron furnace in the United States, the John Winthrop Jr. Iron Furnace Site (also known as Braintree Furnace), from 1644 to 1653. In

8352-426: Was dedicated on October 20, 1979. By the 1980s, the Blue Hill Avenue section of Dorchester had become a predominantly Black community. During the 1990s, the city administration increased police presence and invested city money into the area for more street lighting. On March 30, 2015, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate was dedicated by President Barack Obama . The Institute opened to

8448-555: Was establishing a supermarket in Quincy. In February 2017, City Councilor Nina Liang presented a motion to designate Quincy as a "Sanctuary City". This motion was voted down by the City Council. Quincy has an estimated 8,000 undocumented residents and has the 11th-highest concentration of immigrants in Massachusetts overall. As of 2000, about 50% of Asians in Quincy own their own houses; many who rent do so while saving money for down payments for their houses. Sixty-five percent of

8544-509: Was male, and 49.9% female. The average household size was 2.2 people, and most people (84.3%) were in the same house a year ago. In the city, the age distribution of the population shows 14% under the age of 18, 66.2% from 18 to 64, and 19.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40.8 years. The median income for a household in the city was $ 90,668. Males had a median income of 1.31 times greater than females ($ 97,905 compared to $ 74,737 for females). The per capita income for

8640-564: Was officially incorporated as a separate town named for Col. John Quincy in 1792, the grandfather of Abigail Adams and was made a city in 1888. Quincy, Massachusetts, is the only one of 17 cities named Quincy in the United States whose residents pronounce the name as "KWIN-zee" rather than "KWIN-see". In 1845 the Old Colony Railroad opened; the Massachusetts Historical Commission stated that

8736-508: Was operated as the Boston Sewer system's headworks, handling all of the city's sewage, until 1968. At that time a new treatment facility was built on Deer Island . The pumping station is architecturally significant as a Richardsonian Romanesque designed by Boston City architect, George Clough .The only remaining 19th-century building on Columbia Point, the headworks is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Dorchester

8832-719: Was sold off. After sitting vacant, Charles Francis Adams Jr. authorized the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to use the house as meeting space. This they did until the chapter folded in 1950. The Adamses sold the house to the City of Quincy in 1940, which turned administration of the property over to the Quincy Historical Society (which had earlier taken over the adjacent house) in 1950. The two houses are now part of Adams National Historical Park , and are administered by

8928-453: Was split off from the Town of Braintree and was incorporated separately as the Town of Quincy; the new town was named after Colonel John Quincy , maternal grandfather of Abigail Adams and after whom John Quincy Adams was also named. Quincy became a city in 1888. For over a century, Quincy was home to a thriving granite quarrying industry; the city was also the site of the Granite Railway ,

9024-592: Was still a primarily rural town and had a population of 12,000. Construction of railroad and commuter streetcar lines brought rapid growth, increasing the population to 150,000 by 1920. In the 2010 United States Census , the neighborhood's population was 92,115. The Dorchester neighborhood has a very diverse population, which includes a large concentration of African Americans , European Americans (particularly those of Irish , German , Italian , and Polish origin, reflecting late 19th and early 20th century immigration). More numerous immigrants and their descendants since

9120-412: Was the first in the US to have its police department carry the nasal spray Narcan (Nalaxone) to combat the overdose outbreak associated with the opioid epidemic in the US . When the program first began, the city's officers were reviving an overdose victim every four to five days. By 2014, police officers had administered the opioid antagonist over 300 times. Other cities and police departments throughout

9216-831: Was the site of the Harvard Aero Meet , the second air show in America. It was later leased to the Navy for an airfield, and served as a reserve Squantum Naval Air Station into the 1950s. The Army has also long maintained a presence in the city, with the Massachusetts Army National Guard occupying the Kelley Armory in Wollaston, from 1971 to 1976 it served as headquarters for the 187th Infantry Brigade . The Howard Johnson's and Dunkin' Donuts restaurant chains were both founded in Quincy. Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys got its start in

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