Elizabeth Peabody (1804–1894), born in Billerica, founded the first English-speaking free kindergarten in the U.S. and hosted literary salons in her Boston bookstore.
Elizabeth Peabody's (1804-1894) Book Shop hosted Margaret Fuller's (1810-1850) Conversations, key to Transcendentalism, and was the first woman publisher in Boston.
One of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody’s (1804-1894) kindergartens, considered the founder of the U.S. kindergarten movement, was at 15 Pinckney Street, a mirror image of 17 Pinckney Street.
