{"nrhp_refnum":"11000242","name":"Quincy National Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"36th & Main Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quincy","county":"Adams County","state":"IL","lat":39.932116276000045,"lon":-91.35558352104223,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-05-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A half-acre national cemetery on the north side of Maine Street near 36th Street in Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, begun as a Civil War soldiers' lot in Woodland Cemetery and moved to its current tract in 1899.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under Criterion A for the cemetery's association with the development of the Civil War-era national cemeteries. Quincy was a strategic Union military hub with several army hospitals, and soldiers who died there were buried in the soldiers' lot. The cemetery is judged nationally significant.","narrative":"Quincy National Cemetery is a half-acre burial ground on Maine Street in Quincy, Illinois, holding 585 interments as of May 2010 and now closed to new burials. It began as a Civil War soldiers' lot within Woodland Cemetery, where Union soldiers who died in Quincy's army hospitals were buried from 1861. The federal government bought the present tract in 1899 and moved about 300 bodies there. Its 24 rows of white marble headstones hold veterans from the Civil War through the Persian Gulf War, including Corporal Martin J. Hawkins, a Medal of Honor recipient and member of Andrews' Raiders. Other features include a flagpole on a circular brick base, Civil War-era cannons with cannonball pyramids, granite markers with bronze plaques, and a metal picket fence. The cemetery was listed for its link to the development of Civil War-era national cemeteries and for Quincy's role as a river city and transport center for Union troops and supplies.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1899-1993","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Closed to new burials; 585 interments as of May 2010.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.328497-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_AL/11000242.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000242/2130a30682-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000242/2130a30682-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Department of Veterans Affairs","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DVA_Quincy_Nat_Cemetery.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Veterans Affairs</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DVA_Quincy_Nat_Cemetery.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77834733","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_National_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7272166"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/adams-county/quincy-national-cemetery-11000242/"}