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The Haunted Crossroads: A Downtown Salisbury Walking Tour Past a Courthouse, Firehouses, and Poplar Hill Mansion
101 South Division Street, Salisbury, MD 21801
Research updated August 2026
Age
8-99
Cost
$$
Adult tickets $25 per person retail (per the operator's group-discount page); discounted children's tickets. Book online or by phone.
Access
Wheelchair OK
An outdoor walking tour of downtown Salisbury, including a night walk through a secret downtown graveyard. Wheelchair accessible except in the graveyard.
Equipment
Photos OK
Wicomico County Courthouse, downtown Salisbury · Poplar Hill Mansion (Federal-era house museum) · Chesapeake Ghost Tours (founded 2014, Mindie Burgoyne)
Salisbury is the seat of Wicomico County and the commercial hub of Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore, home to the Wicomico County Courthouse, Poplar Hill Mansion (a Federal-era house museum), and Salisbury University. Chesapeake Ghost Tours, founded in 2014 by writer Mindie Burgoyne, runs its Salisbury walking tour through the downtown historic district, past the Old Courthouse, local firehouses, and Poplar Hill Mansion, closing at a downtown graveyard.
Chesapeake Ghost Tours is based in Salisbury, is the top-ranked tour operator on Tripadvisor for the city, has been featured in the Washington Post's travel section, and carries over 1,300 Tripadvisor reviews overall. The company describes itself as the largest trail of year-round ghost tours in America, covering ten Eastern Shore towns.
Sources
The operator's marketing describes 'holographic phantoms' reportedly seen walking Salisbury's streets, disembodied voices downtown, and a story of a 'beheaded Tory mercenary' tied to the town's Revolutionary War-era history. The Wicomico County Courthouse is marketed as the site of four reported historic murders and heavy paranormal energy. The tour also references stories connected to haunted firehouses, Salisbury University, and Poplar Hill Mansion, and closes with a walk through a downtown graveyard the operator describes as secret.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing material, describing what the tour covers, not an independently verified claim by HauntBound.
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A 1.5-hour storytelling walking tour of downtown Salisbury covering 8+ reportedly haunted sites, including the Wicomico County Courthouse, haunted firehouses, Poplar Hill Mansion, and a secret downtown graveyard. Meets in front of the Old Courthouse.
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Old Courthouse where the tour meets; the operator's marketing ties the site to four reported historic murders.
Named stop referenced in the tour's highlights.
Route continues past haunted firehouses and Salisbury University-adjacent sites, concluding in a downtown graveyard.
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