Blog, PHS and the Community
October 1, 2025 | S. M. Smoller | 10 min read PEABODY – Long before masquerading trick-or-treaters roamed the streets in celebration of Halloween, a supernatural bell demon with two flaming eyes terrorized the local grave digger in a tale of local history...
Blog, PHS and the Community
About this guide: This guide was collated over the summer of 2025 by the Peabody Historical Society and Museum. It’s purpose is to provide educators and community members a place-specific tool for learning about Peabody’s long history of immigration. Each page...
Blog, PHS and the Community
July 1, 2025 | Sophia Richter | 15 minute read In the weeks after Juneteenth, and days before Independence Day, we look at what the abolition movement looked like in Peabody leading up to the Emancipation Proclamation Act of 1865. Abolition most commonly...
Blog, PHS and the Community
April 30, 2025 | By Sophia Richter | a ten minute read A week after Patriot’s Day, we explore how the history of the Lexington Monument in Peabody. Join us as we dig into the original sources that suggest what it meant to the people who created it! There’s...
