The Shade Grown Leaf-Tobacco Capital

Quincy

FOUNDED in 1823

CELEBRATING 100 YEARS AS GADSDEN COUNTY SEAT

There are beautiful homes, clean streets, good schools, churches, and towering shade trees . . . that's Quincy.

The outdoors beckon . . . for in and around Quincy there is excellent fishing and hunting, a-plenty.

The Floridin Company processes Fullers Earth and employs better than 250 persons.

TOBBACO

CATTLE

FULLERS EARTH

Many Industries Attendant to the Agricultural World . . .

Quincy is not only the market for tobacco, but the beef cattle (the Gadsden County population of beef cattle is over 15,000 head), hogs, sugar cane, peanuts, poultry, corn, oats, vegetables, dairying, along with other farm products. In 1950 the county's estimated agricultural income was in excess of 14 million dollars. All this adds to the effective buying income of about 22 million dollars for Gadsden County, with Quincy the principal trading center accounting for a large portion of this volume.

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QUINCY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
QUINCY, FLORIDA

Here shade grown tobacco is used exclusively as a wrapper for cigars.

Seventeen large tobacco packing houses located in Quincy process and pack tobacco grown in this area.

Quincy is the "Leaf Tobacco Capital," growing Havana wrapper of the Sumatra-type tobacco . . .

State Livestock and Crops Pavilion at Quincy is one of the main centers of its agricultural activity.

Quincy The Shade-Grown Leaf Tobacco Capital

Nestled among the picturesque sloping hills of Gadsden County in central-west Florida is the quaint city of Quincy.

It is one of the oldest settlements in the Sunshine State, founded in 1823 after territorial government was established. One year later, 1824, Gadsden County was organized, and in July 1852, one hundred years ago, Quincy was selected as the county seat . . . only a few months previously Tallahassee had been named the territorial capital.

By 1828, Quincy was incorporated and rapidly figured as the principal trading center for this area, which was settled largely by well-to-do slave-owning pioneers from Virginia and the Carolinas.

Quincy's first Court House, built of logs, was erected in 1825; the second was a brick structure built in 1845; and the third and present building was constructed in 1913 and remodeled and redecorated in 1946.

Quincy was among the first Florida cities to adopt the Commission-Manager form of municipal government. Its assessed valuation is close to 9-million dollars, and besides it owns its electric light, water and sewer systems.

Quincy has two banks and a Federal Savings and Loan Association . . . numerous tobacco processing plants, cigar manufacturers, feed mills, meat packing plants, furniture factories, dairy product manufacturers, saw mills, Fullers Earth mines and processing plants.

Quincy has beautiful homes, towering shade trees, clean streets, good schools, churches and you'll like to live in Quincy; it is a nice place to make your home.

Quincy - Florida

You will like to live in Quincy . . .
It is a nice place to make your home

SCHOOLS
Progressive and well-equipped and staffed. There are high, elementary and grammar schools.

HOSPITALS
The city of Quincy guards well the health of its citizens. Latest addition is the Gadsden County Hospital.

BUSINESS
is good in Quincy, for it is a rapidly growing modern city. There's Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions and Exchange Clubs; Business & Professional Women's Club, Pilot Club, Women's Club and Garden Club. Junior C of C and Senior Chamber of Commerce.

CHURCHES
EPISCOPAL PRESBYTERIAN BAPTIST METHODIST
The spiritual life of the people of Quincy is well cared for by its many other social and cultural organizations. Quincy is a good place to make your home.