"Hall China Company in East Liverpool, Ohio."--Photo verso. A photograph taken in 1937 of unfinished pottery at the Hall China Company with pottery workers in the background. The Hall China Company, began production in 1903 in East Liverpool, Ohio--tha Hall China Company is still open today. Thanks to a single fire process developed by Robert Taggert Hall between 1903 and 1911, Hall China is durable, non-porous and it doesn't craze.