Quincy, Florida is a picturesque North Florida town with many historical homes and buildings. Its streets are shaded by magnolia trees and Spanish moss-draped ancient oaks. Founded in 1825, the entire thirty-six-block area covering downtown and surrounding residential neighborhoods is within a designated National Register Historic District. There are more than 100 historic buildings in the district.
The buildings throughout Quincy's downtown commercial district are the result of the economic prosperity that world famous shade-grown cigar wrapper tobacco created in Gadsden County at the turn of the twentieth century. With few exceptions, all of these were built between 1888 and 1922. Still standing are large brick buildings once used as tobacco warehouses and cigar factories. Adjacent to the nine commercial blocks downtown is a residential district mixed with antebellum and Victorian mansions, historic churches and charming craftsman cottages, many boasting beautiful gardens and stained-glass windows.
Quincy has been known for decades as "the Coca Cola town" after several families invested early in the fledgling soda pop company. In the 1940s it gained the tagline, "The Richest Small Town in America", recognized as the wealthiest city per capita in the United States.
Quincy is the county seat of Gadsden County, ethnically and culturally diverse, it is the only majority African-Amrican county in Florida and has a growing Hispanic community.
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