Quincy, IA

QUINCY, the county seat [Adams County, Iowa], is situated in the central western portion of the county, two miles east of the Middle Nodaway River, on high prairie, with a heavy body of timber on the west. It contains four general stores, one grocery, one drug store, one agricultural implement dealer and two flour mills. Population about 275.  (Hair's Iowa State Gazetteer..., 1865)