Poplar Hill Mansion was built as the manor house of a farm outside the small eighteenth century town of Salisbury. The mansion is said to be haunted. The mansion's ghost derives from the Huston period. According to local legend, a slave girl named Sara "19 years old, unmarried, and without child" perished in flames wearing a long, full skirt in the second floor rear bedroom, the nursery. Scorch marks may still be found on the wood floor surrounding the fireplace.