Peabody Leatherworkers MuseumPeabody: built on the leather industry


If you have information about Turkish

people living in Peabody, Massachusetts

please contact Harvard Fellow Isil Acehan

at acehan@bilkent.edu.tr.


Inside Strauss Tanning


Do you have information

on Peabody's Turkish community?



Researcher Isil Acehan

would like to know!

"I believe that this study, which uncovers a period in both the Ottoman and United States history, will lead to a deeper mutual understanding between Turkish and American people. It will also contribute, to a great extent, to reconstruct the history of the leather industry of Peabody, the 'Leather Capital of the World' which was also a forgotten history until recent times."




A Brief History of Early Turkish Migration to
Peabody, Massachusetts