Pemberton Hall is a historic home located at Salisbury

Salisbury, Maryland

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, Wicomico County

Wicomico County, Maryland

As of the census of 2010, there were 98,733 people, 37,220 households, and 24,172 families residing in the county. The population density was 261.7 people per square mile . There were 41,192 housing units at an average density of 109.2 per square mile...

, Maryland

Maryland

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, United States

United States

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. It is a -story, three-bay

Bay (architecture)

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, Flemish bond brick house with a gambrel roof. The construction date of "1741" is scratched in a brick above the side door. One of Isaac Handy's (d. 1763), builder of Pemberton Hall, five sons was George Handy (1756–1820), a charter member of the Society of the Cincinnati

Society of the Cincinnati

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. During the American Civil War

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, the Hall was the home of Allison Parsons, a Southern sympathizer, who insisted on firing a cannon upon the receipt of news of each Confederate

Confederate States of America

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 victory. In 1868, the Governor of Maryland

Governor of Maryland

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, Elihu E. Jackson

Elihu Emory Jackson

Elihu Emory Jackson , a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 41st Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1888 to 1892. He was born in 1837 in Delmar, Maryland and died in 1907 in Baltimore, Maryland. He is buried at the Parsons Cemetery in Salisbury, Maryland...

 (1837–1907), purchased Pemberton Hall with James Cannon at a trustee's sale. Seth Taylor owned Pemberton Hall from 1931 to 1963, at which time the Pemberton Hall Foundation took it over and restored the house.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1971.

External links

• Pemberton Hall, Wicomico County, including photo from 1998, at Maryland Historical Trust
• Pemberton Park website