Few presidents have been as intelligent and eclectically versed as John Quincy Adams. One of his favorite endeavors was viewing celestial objects and events in space. While European countries ...

Two presidents were born in Quincy. How well do you know them?

When John Quincy Adams left the White House after his defeat in the election of 1828, he thought his public life had ended. His wife, Louisa Catherine Adams, welcomed the change because she disliked ...

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the Illinois Legislature to create “Adams County”, with their founding village of ...

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1779, the Continental Congress appointed John Adams to travel to France as a minister in charge of negotiating treaties of peace and commerce with Great Britain during the ...

250 years ago today, future president John Adams declared this was “one of the happiest Days of” his life. As he recorded in his journal: This was one of the happiest Days of my Life. In Congress We ...