Editing Quincy, Washington (section)

==History==
[[File:Quincymuseum.jpg|thumb|Historic Reiman-Simmons House at the Quincy Valley Museum]]

===Geologic history===
Quincy lies atop a part of the [[Columbia River Basalt Group]] which is overlain by Pleistocene outburst flood deposits.  The [[Missoula Floods]] had one of their outlets at Trinidad, close to Quincy and another near Ancient Lakes, which includes the [[Ancient Lakes of the Columbia Valley AVA]]. [[Glacial erratic]]s carried from as far away as Montana can be found nearby. The area also has an abundance of [[rimrock]].

===Great Northern Railway===
Quincy was founded as a railroad camp during construction of the [[Great Northern Railway (U.S.)|Great Northern Railway]] in 1892, and was incorporated on March 27, 1907. It was named after [[Quincy, Illinois]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=24964|title=Profile for Quincy, Washington|publisher=[[ePodunk]]|access-date=May 28, 2010}}</ref>

===Grand Coulee Dam===
{{See also|Columbia Basin Reclamation Project#History}}
The arrival of the water from the Grand Coulee Dam in 1952 changed the town.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}