Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Quincy, FL

Quincy is the county seat of Gadsden County, established and incorporated in 1828 and named for John Quincy Adams, sitting about 25 miles northwest of Tallahassee in the rolling hills of the Florida Panhandle.

Quincy had 7,970 residents at the 2020 census - exactly two fewer people than the 7,972 counted in 2010 - living in about 2,800 households.

Quincy is famous as the town of the 'Coca-Cola millionaires' - local banker Mark Welch 'Pat' Munroe urged farmers, widows and other residents to buy Coca-Cola stock at its 1919 offering price of $40 a share, and as many as 67 local investors became millionaires.

Quincy was once reputed to be the richest town per capita in the entire United States thanks to its residents' Coca-Cola holdings - a single $40 share bought in 1919 would be worth more than $6 million today if all dividends had been reinvested.

Before Coca-Cola, Quincy's fortune was shade-grown cigar-wrapper tobacco - Governor William P. Duval introduced Cuban tobacco seed to Florida in 1828, and Gadsden County became one of only two districts in the United States suited to growing wrapper leaf, an industry that lasted until the final crop in 1977.

Quincy is the seat of Gadsden County, which is Florida's only majority African American county.

Quincy's Historic District preserves tobacco-era and antebellum landmarks listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the E. C. Love House, the John Lee McFarlin House and the Judge P. W. White House.

The Gadsden Arts Center in Quincy, an accredited art museum, is housed in a renovated 1912 hardware store within the historic district, and downtown also holds the Leaf Theatre, a historic cinema now home to the Quincy Music Theatre.

Quincy was named an All-America City in 1996.

Quincy was an educational outpost from its earliest days - by 1840 it already supported two schools, the Quincy Male Academy and the Quincy Female Academy.