What if Germans didn’t Migrate to Quincy?

What If
Written By Travis Hoffman
Early German Immigrants to Quincy helped shape Quincy Illinois in so many ways

German heritage in the Gem City has been a stable of the community for literally hundreds of years with the German's migrating to Quincy in the mid 1800'sBut what would the city of Quincy look like if there was not a mass German migration to Quincy in the mid 1800's? For that matter would Quincy even be considered a town? In this episode we accidentally step on a butterfly and see how different Quincy might look without the German migration.

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