Wicomico County includes the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art, named for Lem and Steve Ward of Crisfield, Maryland, whose skill and vision elevated traditional decoy carving to a fine art form; its galleries include changing exhibits, a habitat theater with a wildfowl conservation video, a recreated Ward Brothers' workshop, a championship gallery, and displays tracing the history and major flyways of innumerable species of wildfowl, along with a recreated marsh habitat with the sounds of wildfowl overhead. It also includes Poplar Hill Mansion, a transitional Georgian house begun in 1795 by Levin Handy and completed in 1805 by Dr. John D. Huston, Salisbury's first prominent physician; the mansion survived the great fires of 1860 and 1886, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and retains outstanding original woodwork, windows, and brass hardware. Its name comes from the poplar trees planted in front and along the dirt lane to Salisbury, and it once stood at the center of a 228-acre working plantation with fruit trees, vegetable crops, forests, sheep, and cattle. The county also includes the 12-acre Salisbury Zoological Park on a branch of the Wicomico River, where natural habitats support about 400 birds, mammals, and reptiles, including bison, monkeys, jaguars, spectacled bears, bald eagles, otters, and prairie dogs. On the western bank of the Wicomico River, Pemberton Historical Park preserves the site where Isaac Handy arrived and built his home and working plantation, with Pemberton Hall, a restored brick gambrel-roofed plantation house built in 1741, now owned by the Pemberton Hall Foundation, Inc.; the Wicomico Historical Society maintains the Heritage Centre Museum and gift shop there, and the grounds offer 4-1/2 miles of trails through meadows, hardwood and pine forests, freshwater wetlands, a freshwater pond, and agricultural fields.