Salisbury Plantation (Westover, Maryland)
human settlement in Maryland, United States of America
Salisbury Plantation is a historic house located at Westover, Somerset County, Maryland. It has two principal sections: a 19th-century, two-story plus attic clapboard section whose roof ridge runs east to west, and a first-quarter-18th-century 1+1⁄2-story brick section with its ridge running north to south.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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