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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...
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April is National Gardening Month, so this week we are going to delve into the life and times of Bessie Raymond Buxton – Peabody’s own plant expert! Bessie Raymond was born in Danvers on January 22, 1877. Her mother died when she was a child,...
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In 1890, the Rockdale Riding Park was built off of Lynn Street in South Peabody by Abbott and Reynolds. The stables could hold up to 40 horses. The first race was June 17, 1890. In 1899, the Park was sold to Daniel Brown. The track’s major annual race took place...
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The American Resinous Chemical Co. was located at 103 Foster Street, Peabody, from 1942 to 1953. Ashworth N. Stull and his colleagues at the Company were faced with a challenge. They needed to invent a flexible liquid adhesive out of polymers, before their competitors...
