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Elijah Barber House, 59 Barbourtown Road

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Elijah Barber House, 59 Barbourtown Road
 

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This central chimney colonial was built in 1800 by Elijah Barber.  In the 1830s, when the silk industry craze hit southern New England, a silk worm house or cocoonery was built on the property.  It was later replaced with a barn.