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SIMPLY SOUTH SHORE: He put the president in City of Presidents
Posted Aug. 3, 2015 at 12:01 am Updated Aug 3, 2015 at 7:33 AM

The City of Presidents is named Quincy, but it could be called Adams as well, for John Adams.

The nation's second president and Revolutionary War leader is an abiding presence from one end of the city to the other. The Adams National Historical Park – which is located on Adams Street – is one of the South Shore's most popular tourist destinations. The birthplaces of him and his son, President John Quincy Adams, are over on Franklin Street.

The city has not one but two John Adams statues – a granite figure in Centennial Park along Newport Avenue, and a more recent bronze outside City Hall. Just off the Neponset River Bridge, visitors can stay the night at the Best Western Adams Inn, and dream patriot dreams.

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