Flint and Walling Manufacturing Company: makers of the Original Star Windmill (red, white and blue) popular on the southern Great Plains in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries (made from 8178-1915).
Sold in sizes ranging from 10 to 26 feet in diameter; a 10-foot windmill sold for $90,000 in 1887.
(Photo ©2012 by Susan McKee of a 10-foot Original Star Windmill now in the Panhandle Plains Museum, Texas)
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