The climate and soil of Adams County is ideal for agriculture and farms yielded excellent crops of grain which allowed flour mills to flourish in Quincy. Its pork-packing and meat-processing center rivaled any other on the Mississippi north of St. Besides these Quincy had its share of coopers and cabinetmakers, saddlers and leather makers. The city boasted a new flour mill, a stove-making facility, a wagon and carriage business and a successful steel plow enterprise. By 1838, Quincy becoming an economic boom town. Quincy’s earliest settlers came primarily from New England. Quincy was incorporated as a town in 1834 and as a city in 1840. The county had at this time an estimated population of about seventy. The commissioners drove a stake into the public square of Bluffs (John’s Square) and named the settlement Quincy in honor of the newly-elected U.S. In 1825 the state of Illinois sent commissioners to the newly created Adams County to locate a county seat. Wood was joined by others who had come to settle on land grants or to engage in trade and a small settlement known as Bluffs grew. Wood was impressed with the location’s timber, fertile soil, abundance of game, by the fact that it was the only site within 100 miles where the bluff reached the Mississippi River, and by the fact that the site had a natural harbor. John Wood was so impressed with the natural resources of the locality purchased the 160 acre bounty from the veteran for $60 and the next year became the first European settler in the area. The Military Tract was a large tract of land in Western Illinois set aside by act of Congress as payment to soldiers who served in the War of 1812.
In 1818, John Wood, a New York native, to the Illinois Country and in 1821 he travelled north from nearby Pike County to investigate the claim of a friend who had been granted a land bounty in the Military Tract. Quincy sits on the bluffs on the banks of the Mississippi River.
0 kommentar(er)
