Quincy National Cemetery

Quincy National Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	36th & Main Sts. Quincy, Illinois
Coordinates	39°55′56″N 91°21′20″W / 39.93222°N 91.35556°W / 39.93222; -91.35556Coordinates: 39°55′56″N 91°21′20″W / 39.93222°N 91.35556°W / 39.93222; -91.35556
Built	1861
MPS	Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS
NRHP Reference #	11000242

Quincy National Cemetery is a small United States National Cemetery located in the city of Quincy, in Adams County, Illinois. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses slightly less than a half an acre, and as 2014, had 690 interments. It is currently closed to new interments, and is maintained by Rock Island National Cemetery.

History

Originally a plot within Woodland Cemetery, the first burials took place in 1861. It was designated a National Cemetery on July 24, 1882.

In 1899, without explanation, a lot within Graceland Cemetery, in Adams County, Ill., was purchased and all the interments were transferred there from the plot in Woodland Cemetery. More modern changes to the cemetery have divided it from Graceland so as to be its own cemetery.

Sometime between 1936 and 1949, a fence dividing Graceland and the National Cemetery was improperly placed. An act of Congress was passed in 1953 (Public Law 116), to rectify the resulting property dispute.^[1]

Notable monuments

• Three gun monuments the New York Arsenal.

References

External links

• National Cemetery Administration
• Quincy National Cemetery
• Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) No. IL-5, "Quincy National Cemetery, 36th and Maine Street, Quincy, Adams County, IL", 8 photos, 2 photo caption pages
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Quincy National Cemetery
• Quincy National Cemetery at Find a Grave

Municipalities and communities of Adams County, Illinois, United States
County seat: Quincy
City	Quincy
Town	La Prairie
Villages	Camp Point Clayton Coatsburg Columbus Golden Liberty Lima Loraine Mendon Payson Plainville Ursa
Townships	Beverly Burton Camp Point Clayton Columbus Concord Ellington Fall Creek Gilmer Honey Creek Houston Keene Liberty Lima McKee Melrose Mendon Northeast Payson Richfield Riverside Ursa
Unincorporated communities	Adams Beverly Bigneck Blacks Bloomfield Burton Chatton Chestline Cliola Country Meadows Ewbanks Fall Creek Fowler Hickory Grove Kellerville Kingston Marblehead Marcelline Meyer North Quincy Paloma Richfield Rock Creek Sheridan Estates Spring Valley Woodville