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With July 4th just around the corner, let’s talk parades! The Museum is lucky to have some great images of Peabody parades going back to the late 1800s. From June 14th to 16th, 1919, the City of Peabody formally welcomed home its servicemen following the end of...
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Graduation season is upon us, so let’s take a look at the many lives of Peabody High School. Opened in 1850, the first Peabody High School was a small one-story building, once used as a chapel in the rear of the Unitarian Church on Park Street. It held 43...
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Before we delve into our veterans’ stories, I wanted to share an exciting project with you all. Cheryl Millard has photographed many of Peabody’s Veterans Memorials, and she has shared her photographs with us. We have put them up on our website....
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In the week leading up to Memorial Day, we are doing a two-part series highlighting a Peabody veteran from each war. American Revolution (1775-1783) Captain Dennison Wallis was born in Ipswich in 1756 and raised in Peabody. At the age of 19, Wallis joined the local...
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Special thanks to Cheryl Millard and her wonderful photographs of these memorials! She took the time to visit each one and photograph them for us. We appreciate it! We are doing our best to get images of all Peabody memorials. This is just a start. If you...
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Foster Street, May 1954; police officer is Peter Katsarakes On May 16, 1954, around 6:30pm, the 60-foot rock and dirt dam at Eastman Gelatine Corp. (now Rousselot) burst. It sent a flash flood down Foster Street; eventually the water reached parts of Peabody...
