NUGGET #17
Quincy Close, a lane at Casagmo, was named by developer David L. Paul for the ancestors of George M. Olcott, who built the Casagmo mansion in the 1890s. Often confused with Quince Court, one of Paul’s byways at Fox Hill condominiums.
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