Acors Barns House - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Acors Barns House - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Acors Barns House is located at 68 Federal Street at the corner of Meridian Street in New London, Connecticut. Barns was a wealthy merchant in the whaling industry whose company became one of the largest whaling firms in the city. He managed to avoid the collapse of whaling by investing elsewhere; he was the founder of the Bank of Commerce in 1852, and his son and grandson succeeded him as president. Read more on Wikipedia
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