For decades, local stories claimed President John Quincy Adams once owned a summer home in Deer Park. Research instead traced the property to a different John Quincy Adams, a clergyman who owned land here in the nineteenth century, and a Legends & Lore marker now explains how the presidential connection became local folklore.
Filed under folklore: stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.
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Source: wgpfoundation.org/historic-markers/john-quincy-adams/