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West Quincy (Quincy, Massachusetts)
West Quincy is a neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts. It is bordered on the north by Wollaston, on the east by Quincy Center, on the south by South Quincy and on the west by the town of Milton and the Blue Hills Reservation.
== History ==
Known in the seventeenth century as the "Woods District" of old Braintree,〔 Quincy was a part of Braintree when that town was formed in 1640, known as the North Precinct of Braintree, before incorporation as a separate town in 1792.〕 West Quincy was the location of two important firsts in United States history. In 1644, the Braintree Furnace located on what is now Crescent Street in West Quincy was founded by John Winthrop the Younger as the first operational iron blast furnace in the country. In 1826 the Granite Railway, the first commercial railroad in the United States, was constructed in West Quincy. It was built to transport granite from Quincy to the Neponset River for water transit to Charlestown for the construction of the Bunker Hill Monument. Granite from the quarries in West Quincy was also used in the construction of other notable structures, including King's Chapel (1754) and the Custom House (1849)〔 in Boston, United First Parish Church (1828)〔 and Quincy City Hall (1844)〔 (image) in Quincy Center and the Merchant's Exchange Building (1842) at 55 Wall Street in Manhattan(). Over twenty granite quarries were excavated in West Quincy before operations wound down in the mid-twentieth century.
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