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Pease is a name well-recognized as a family associated with the production of high quality nineteenth century hand-turned woodenware. Born in New England, David Mills Pease (1815-1890) was the patriarch of a new business started by him in northeastern Ohio in 1850. With three of his sons, David operated first one and later a second woodturning mill in Cascade Valley in Concord, Ohio. The small, picturesque community was a thriving, self-reliant manufacturing beehive. By 1875 approximately two dozen mills of various endeavors were powered by the beautiful flowing waters of Big Creek and other local streams which feed into Lake Erie. One of those who realized an existing opportunity and capitalized on the idyllic circumstances was Otis Almon Brown (1859-1923) whose family also has a protracted history in the area. More »