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Built in 1951, Lippitt School is named in honor of one
of Rhode Island's pioneer families, all of whom can trace their lineage back one way or another to the original
John Lippitt, who settled in Providence in 1638, two years after Roger Williams. Many members of the Lippitt Family
were prominent in government, business and in the military. Governor Henry Lippitt was instrumental in the founding
of The Rhode Island School for the Deaf in 1876. |