George Peabody House Museum and Peabody Leatherworkers Museum

This house museum interprets the life and legacy of philanthropist George Peabody. George Peabody was one of the first American philanthropist, donating millions of dollars for worthy causes before his death in 1869. The Leatherworkers Museum explores Peabody's history as “The Leather Capital of the World”. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Peabody’s booming leather manufacturing was a vital part of the industrial economy of Boston’s North Shore.