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    The Hall Influence

    Jul 12, 2019 3 minutes
    By Jerry Stienbarger

    In 2016, Flint & Walling Mfg. Co. celebrated 150 years of continuous manufacturing at the same location at the corner of Oak and Mitchell streets in Kendallville, Indiana.

    No clear history existed of the formative years when David Walling and Simeon Flint took ownership of a company that would one day become a world leader in domestic water system production.

    From the company’s beginning in 1876 until 1954, when windmill production ended, Flint & Walling invented and

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