Sights in Quincy
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Adams National Historic Park
The Adams family sights are accessible by guided tours, which depart from the Adams National Historic Park Visitor Center. Every half-hour, trolleys travel to the John Adams and John Quincy Adams Birthplaces, the oldest presidential birthplaces in the United States. These two 17th-century saltbox houses stand side by side along the old Coast Rd, which connected Plymouth to Boston. The houses are furnished as they would have been in the 18th century, so visitors can see where John Adams started his law career, started his family, and wrote the Massachusetts Constitution (which was later used as the basis for the US Constitution).
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Quincy Historical Society
While Quincy is famous as the birthplace of John Adams, it is less known that it is the birthplace of John Hancock. On the site of the Hancock house now stands the building of the former Adams Academy, also founded by the Adams fund. The gothic revival building houses the Quincy Historical Society. Exhibits address Native American history, economic development related to shipbuilding and granite production and other famous Quincy families.
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Hancock Cemetery
Hancock Cemetery is the final resting place of many notable Quincy residents, including most of the Quincy and Adams families. The Adams family vault, near the street, was the original site of the graves of the presidents and their wives, before they were interred in the Presidential Crypt. A map to Hancock Cemetery is available at the United First Parish Church.
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United First Parish Church
John and Abigail Adams, and John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams are all interred in the basement of the handsome granite United First Parish Church, in Quincy Center.
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