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Adams County, Illinois

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38newspaper titles

0digitized titles

27historic places

1835earliest paper

1825formed

65,737pop. 2020

183cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 38 newspaper titles published in Adams County, Illinois, with the earliest starting in 1835. None of these titles are currently digitized on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 27 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Quincy, Golden, Payson.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Adams

Library of Congress

38 newspaper titles

Title	Place	Years
Illinois Bounty Land Register	Quincy	1835–1836
Columbus Advocate	Columbus	1842–1999
Daily Morning Courier	Quincy	1845–1899
Das Quincy Journal	Quincy	1850–1899
Daily Quincy Whig	Quincy	1852–1859
The Daily Quincy Herald	Quincy	1855–1859
Daily Whig and Republican	Quincy	1860–1868
Daily Whig and Republican	Quincy	1860–1868
Freedom's Progress	Quincy	1864–1864
Daily Quincy Herald	Quincy	1865–1881
The Clayton Standard	Clayton	1865–1899
The Emigrant's Gazetteer	Quincy	1865–1999
Camp Point Enterprise	Camp Point	1866–1872
Daily Evening Call	Quincy	1870–1879
The Evening Call	Quincy	1870–1870
The Evening Call	Quincy	1870–1873
The Camp Point Journal	Camp Point	1873–?
The County News	Payson	1875–1879
The Mendon Dispatch	Mendon	1878–1932
The Clayton Enterprise	Clayton	1879–2001
Adams County Democrat	Quincy	1882–1999
Adams County Democrat	Quincy	1882–1999
The Daily Clayton Enterprise	Clayton	1882–1999
The Farmer's Call	Quincy,	1886–1907
The Golden New Era	Golden	1892–2001
Illinois Informer	Quincy	1900–?
The Fowler Record	Fowler	1900–1999
The Liberty Bee	Liberty	1900–1965
Labor Advocate	Quincy	1913–1999
Community Enterprise	Coatsburg	1915–?
The Adams County Farmer	Quincy	1919–1999
Mendon Dispatch-Times & Quincy Times	Mendon	1930–1937
Mendon Dispatch and Loraine Times	Mendon	1932–1932
Mendon Dispatch-Times	Mendon	1932–1939
Mendon Dispatch-Times	Mendon	1937–?
Liberty Bee-Times	Liberty	1966–?
Golden-Clayton New Era	Camp Point	2001–?
The Journal of Industry	Quincy	?–

Source: Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory. “Digitized” links lead to page images on Chronicling America.

Coverage timeline

Newspapers

Each bar is one title’s publication span. brown = digitized on Chronicling America Open-ended runs extend to today.

18301879192819772026

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

16 of 27 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

27 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Coca-Cola Bottling Company Building	Quincy	Building	1997
Downtown Quincy Historic District	Quincy	District	1983
Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Chapel and Cemetery	Golden	Building	1984
Exchange Bank	Golden	Building	1987
Fall Creek Stone Arch Bridge	Payson	Structure	1996
Gardner, Robert W., House	Quincy	Building	1979
Lesem, S.J., Building	Quincy	Building	1999
Lewis Round Barn	Mendon	Building	2003
Lock and Dam No. 21 Historic District	Quincy	District	2004
Morgan-Wells House	Quincy	Building	1977
Newcomb, Richard F., House	Quincy	Building	1982
One Thirty North Eighth Building	Quincy	Building	1984
Quincy East End Historic District	Quincy	District	1985
Quincy National Cemetery	Quincy	Site	2011
Quincy Northwest Historic District	Quincy	District	2000
Roy, John, Site	Clayton	Site	1978
South Side German Historic District	Quincy	District	1992
South Side German Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Quincy	District	1995
State Savings Loan and Trust	Quincy	Building	1979
Thomas, F. D., House	Camp Point	Building	1983
U.S. Post Office and Courthouse	Quincy	Building	1977
Ursa Town Hall	Ursa	Building	2002
Villa de Kathrine	Quincy	Building	1978
Warfield, William S., House	Quincy	Building	1979
Wood, Ernest M., Office and Studio	Quincy	Building	1982
Wood, John, Mansion	Quincy	Building	1970
Woodland Cemetery	Quincy	District	2002

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Adams was formed in 1825 (1825-01-13) from Pike.

ADAMS created from PIKE and Non-County Area 3 attached to PIKE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Adams County population from 1830 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1830	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,186	14,476	41,323	59,135	67,058	62,188	65,229	64,690	68,467	71,622	68,277	65,737

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

183 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 183 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Adamson Cemetery	None	None
Akers Cemetery	None	None
Alfred Walker and Peter Williams Cemetery	39.90037	-91.07361
Allen Family Cemetery	None	None
Amen Cemetery	39.9424	-90.96291
Baker Family Cemetery	39.79534	-91.10661
Banton Cemetery	None	None
Baptist Cemetery	None	None
Bennett Family Cemetery	None	None
Benton Family Cemetery	None	None
Beverly Old Cemetery	39.79631	-90.99149
Bloomfield Cemetery	None	None
Bluff Hall Cemetery	39.81726	-91.33097
Booth Cemetery	40.02441	-91.36152
Bowles Cemetery	None	None
Britt Cemetery	None	None
Broady Cemetery	39.87241	-91.09773
Brochscmidt Family Cemetery	None	None
Bundy Family Cemetery	None	None
Burden Cemetery	39.88337	-90.93235
Burton Cemetery	39.89981	-91.24307
Byler Cemetery	40.06522	-91.19938
Calvary Cemetery	39.95255	-91.38321
Cate Family Cemetery	40.06421	-91.15069
Cate Family Cemetery	None	None
Chase Cemetery	None	None
Clark Family Cemetery	39.88163	-91.07383
Clayton Old Cemetery	None	None
Coats Cemetery	39.93179	-91.07312
Coatsburg Cemetery	None	None
Collier Family Cemetery	None	None
Columbus Cemetery	39.98532	-91.1409
Concord Cemetery	39.94924	-91.0106
Cook Cemetery	39.81495	-91.17572
Cook Cemetery	None	None
Craigtown Cemetery	39.8375	-91.30185
Crenshaw Cemetery	None	None
Crocker Family Cemetery	None	None
Curless Cemetery	40.13756	-91.19081
Cusick Family Cemetery (historical)	None	None
Denson Cemetery	40.08358	-91.36952
Drescher Family Cemetery	39.85197	-91.07283
Dunkard Cemetery	39.96013	-90.9439
Durbin Cemetery	39.9167	-90.94133
Earel Cemetery	39.9756	-91.05551
Ebenezer Cemetery	40.15888	-91.10291
Ehe Cemetery	39.87537	-91.34011
Ellington Church Cemetery	39.98671	-91.35626
Elmwood Family Cemetery	39.86393	-91.04013
Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery	40.07686	-90.97638
Evergreen Cemetery	39.9982	-91.25963
Evergreen Cemetery	40.03421	-91.07208
Fairview Cemetery	39.85896	-90.93614
Fall Creek Chapel Cemetery	39.79084	-91.26488
Fall Creek Methodist Protestant Cemetery	39.79452	-91.28471
Fawbush Cemetery	None	None
Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens	39.93085	-91.35239
Franklin Cemetery	40.11713	-91.32875
Franks Cemetery	39.83793	-91.14121
Frazer Family Cemetery	None	None
Freiling Cemetery	None	None
Friedhof Cemetery	40.10717	-91.02937
Gallemore Cemetery	40.13118	-91.40678
Gardner Family Cemetery	None	None
Gilliland Cemetery (historical)	None	None
Goertz Cemetery	39.88132	-91.01259
Golden Community Cemetery	None	None
Golden Mausoleum	None	None
Golden Memorial Gardens	40.11254	-91.02791
Gooding Cemetery	40.0362	-91.21431
Graceland Cemetery	39.93199	-91.3557
Grady Cemetery	39.89309	-90.93163
Gray Mound Cemetery	40.03575	-91.15763
Greenmount Cemetery	39.91024	-91.39336
Grove Cemetery	None	None
Grubb Cemetery	39.89761	-91.11518
Hamilton Cemetery	None	None
Harwood Cemetery	39.89639	-90.95461
Hebron Cemetery	40.07791	-91.0385
Higgins Cemetery	40.1555	-91.37476

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Calftown	39.92643	-91.40348

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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