![]() The Historical Society of Quincy & Adams County has recently set up a compelling museum at this fine building on the southwest corner of Washington Park. The History Museum on the Square is in the former Quincy Public Library (1888), in a Romanesque Revival style, from rusticated stone. History Museum on the Square Source: HSQAC History Museum & Gift Shop / Facebook History Museum on the Square On a square plan, that park has had the same dimension for nigh-on 200 years and was the site of the sixth Lincoln-Douglas debate in 1858. In summer there’s a farmers’ market on Saturday mornings, as well as live music on the 2nd and 4th Friday evenings.Ĭontinue your tour in the magnificent East End, home to the city’s 19th-century movers and shakers, and the South Side German Historic District, where the architecture has a clear German influence.ģ. Springing up during the city’s heyday as a center for commerce on the Mississippi are numerous elegant buildings, in styles ranging from Italianate to Richardsonian Romanesque.ĭowntown is coming through a revitalization process, and you’ll also find a smattering of locally owned restaurants, especially in the blocks just east of Washington Park. Using the ceremonious Washington Park as your base I suggest to pass an agreeable couple of hours ambling around Quincy’s historic core. Historic Downtown Source: APN Photography / shutterstock Historic Downtown Quincy and Washington Park I have visited Quincy several times so I’m sure you’re gonna find something you like on my list of the best things to do. I’m an Illinois native and have a passion for travel. The good news is that Quincy’s main attractions are housed in beautiful buildings from those days, and you’ll be free to set off on foot to discover no fewer than 100 local landmarks and as many as 20 sites on the National Register of Historic Places. That status is impossible to ignore on Quincy’s tree lined streets, sophisticated parks and neighborhoods constellated with magnificent architecture. "It's kind of crazy to see the world go crazy over them, and to know that we created them and love them so much, it means a lot," Dean said.By the riverfront and perched on the bluffs, Quincy is a picture perfect city next to the Mississippi River in western Illinois. In the golden age of the Mississippi steamboats this settlement was a hub for commerce and transportation. Then again when you look at them, they're so different," Meyer said. ![]() "Some people do say that they look like sisters in their smiles. "She just enjoys more of her sister going and acting crazy," Dean said.Īnd though they're twins, they're a biological rarity. "She just started crawling about two weeks ago." Kalani is more independent whereas Jarani is a little more mellow. ![]() I had MTV, Inside Edition, CBS, the Today Show, The Huffington post just wrote today," Meyer said.Īccording to their parents, their differences are a little more than skin deep. Now at nine months old, they're already taking the internet by storm. "She didn't have any and Jarani had those," Meyer said. They're common on any part of the body of dark-skinned babies and look almost similar to a bruise. Those spots are known as mongolian spots. Then at the next check up, she had noticed the spots on her and not on Kalani." "She did the same thing that the nurses did. "When we did our one-week follow up with our pediatrician, we had mentioned it to her," Meyer said. Not only are they twin sisters, they're biracial twins.Īccording to the BBC, a biracial couple expecting twins has a 1 in 500 chance of their children having different skin colors. ![]() "As months kept going on, she stayed the same." "Honestly I had asked one of the nurses if Kalani was albino because she was so white," Meyer explained. Quincy, Illinois - When twins Kalani and Jarani Dean were born, their parents Tomas Dean and Whitney Meyer were anything short of surprised.
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