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The County's First Modern Distillery

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AUDIT ROW #310 · THE DISTILLERY HALF, DUG · THE VINES HALF, A NAMED GAP

The checklist asks who brought distilling back first in the modern era, and the county's documented answer seats at 1115 West Sample Street, South Bend: the Indiana Whiskey Company, founded by Charles Florance.It is carried at boundary size: the firm is South Bend's, its first-in-the-county standing is the fact Walkerton's leg needs (the modern era's first still in this county was not here, either), and nothing more of its course is claimed. The item's vines half — the county's first modern winery planting, the Ironhand pattern of the floor — was not verified from this seat and closes as a named gap, settler the state winery-licensing and Indiana Grown records.

Principal sources: Notre Dame Magazine (the Florance founding story); the Indiana Whiskey Company, 1115 W. Sample St., South Bend (company record; Tracxn founding line, 2011); settler named for the vines limb — Indiana winery licensing and Indiana Grown records.

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Source: The County's First Modern Distillery, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/wineries-distilleries/boundary-entry-the-county-s-first-modern-distillery-is/