1817: The American School for the Deaf, originally known as the American Asylum, is founded in Hartford, Connecticut. It is the first residential school for the deaf in the United States.
1818: The New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb is founded in Manhattan, New Yor...
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