Quincy Seal
What color lines the edge of the seal?
Which rock did Solomon Willard discover to use in Quincy?
granite
What disease killed many Native Americans?
smallpox or plague
What products did we get from the Iron Blast Furnace?
Iron products like pots, pans, nails, forks, etc.
Who was the 2nd United States President from Quincy, MA?
John Adams
What word is written across the top of the seal?
Manet
John Winthrop, Jr. operated the first furnace to smelt which mineral?
iron
What year did the first English settlers arrive?
1625
What idea did Gridley Bryant come up with to transport granite?
Granite Railway
Which 6th President and son of John Adams lived in Quincy?
John Quincy Adams
How many dates are on the Quincy seal?
4
Furnace Brook provided which important natural resource to power the machinery?
water
Who was the sachem of the Massachusett people?
Chickataubut
The Bunker Hill Monument is made from how many pieces of Quincy granite?
3,000
Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence and lived in Quincy?
John Hancock
What is the name of the hill on the seal and is an area in Quincy?
Wollaston Hill
The Seal of Quincy uses which natural resource to show where Captain Wollaston first set up a trading settlement?
Cedar tree
The legend of the Three Sisters is that of women bringing which three crops to the Massachusetts people?
corn, beans, & squash
What famous warship was built in Quincy & is docked at the Fore River Shipyard?
USS Salem or 139
Squantum and Squaw Rock are named after which native person?
Squanto
What is the importance of 1888, located on the bottom of the seal?
The year that Quincy became a city.
The first ships built were built from which material?
wood
The shipyard began building steel ships in 1896
Name one place where the Moswetuset tribe lived in Quincy?
Blue Hills, Squaw Rock, Passanagesset Knoll & Moswetuset Hummock
Which immigrants were skilled in glassmaking and weaving, and had an area of Quincy named after them?
German
In 1792, the town of Quincy was named after who?
Colonel John Quincy, Abigail Adam's grandfather