During the Depression following of the War of 1812 the Lippitt Manufacturing Company survived by supplying yarn to convict weavers in the Vermont prison.

The company grew throughout the 19th century becoming a large profitable enterprise in which several generations of the Lippitt family were involved.

Knight sold the Lippitt Mill property to Joseph Hayes, owner of the Riverpoint Lace Works.

The Hayes family stopped manufacturing lace here in the early 1970s, but they retained ownership of the property until it went into receivership in 2008.

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