The Century Chest Artifact segment of "TheWizard" has become so popular, we are adding some content to our website. The Century Chest was opened in 2002.

Here are a couple of letters written more than one hundred years ago.

These present a slice of 1902 life and tell us how they celebrated some of the holidays, especially the Fourth of July. I know you will enjoy this look into what life was like in the home and in the school in 1902. Hearing it in the words of those who lived it here in Peabody makes it that much more real and precious to us, as historians.