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The Western Reserve lands of northeastern Ohio represent three million acres once owned by the Connecticut Land Company. "When the land company visited the Reserve and began to explore it (in 1796), the men could not say enough in praise of it. They gave glowing tributes, exalting the new Connecticut as a Garden of Eden whose natural advantage and beauties were unsurpassed with forests of magnificent growth, streams of clear sparkling water and deer, elk and fish affording much food for man. Moved by such inspiring accounts the great army of immigrants began to march."¹

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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 »