Lippitt, Rhode Island is a village within the town of

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History

Lippitt was founded by Revolutionary War General Christopher Lippitt and his brother Charles Lippitt when they and their partners constructed Lippitt Mill in 1809 and the surrounding mill village for their workers. During the Depression following of War of 1812, the Lippitt Manufacturing Company survived by supplying yarn to convict weavers in the

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prison. The original mill and several of the workers row houses still survive. It is one of the oldest cotton mills in New England and has been sold to several owners since the Lippitt family sold it 1889. The Mill is on the

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, and is one of the earliest

textile mill Textile manufacturing or textile engineering is a major industry. It is largely based on the conversion of fibre into yarn, then yarn into fabric. These are then dyed or printed, fabricated into cloth which is then converted into useful good ...

s in Rhode Island. It is one of the oldest American textile mills still used for manufacturing.

References

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