Utilizing historical newspaper archives, a profile starts to develop about this eccentric Quincian who called the Villa Kathrine Home

18 museums and properties in Quincy and Adams County open up for historical tours

Learn about new research on the life of Abraham Lincoln

Mountain Lions had a history here in Frontier Adams County, and perhaps a future.

While The Villa Kathrine is one of Quincy’s Gems, the man behind the structure lead a life on intrigue. A life that is too often overshadowed from the home he left behind.

The earliest citizens of Quincy helped carve out the expanding nation at a controversial frontier location. With the slave state of Missouri just across the Mississippi River, this strand of the waterway attracted outspoken Americans committed to fighting human bondage.

Christmas should be a time of happiness. Christmas should be a time for families to gather around the tree and open presents in their pajamas. For many families in Quincy Christmas of 1899 would sadly be much different.