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1863

Hand Mill Invention​

Cleveland, Ohio

After fighting in the Revolutionary War, George Peake was the first Black person in the settlement that began Cleveland. There Peake invented a hand-operated mill that more easily ground corn and wheat than mortar and pestle; his invention was not patented.​

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