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Explore the Interactive Map Tour: Revolutionary Peabody! Take an online tour of Peabody’s Revolutionary History through an interactive map exhibit. Peabody’s history of the American Revolution is all around you, if you only know where to look! Click on the...
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February 7, 2025 | Sophia Richter | 10 minute read. 2025 and 2026 mark the 250th anniversary since the American Revolution. All over the country, you can access programming to reflect on and explore the legacies of this period in our history. For the...
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Elizabeth Whitman’s story may not have been preserved by time, had a female author not penned a bestselling novel, based on her life. Born in 1752, Whitman was the daughter of a Connecticut minister and his wife. Well-educated, and widely admired for her poetry and...
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College Yearbook, 1925 Virginia Carten was born on March 23rd, 1903 in Beverly, Massachusetts. Her family moved shortly thereafter to Peabody where they had a dairy and cattle farm – known as the Carten Farm. Carten was a talented artist and she attended Mass...
