Williams' Conquest, also known as Williams' Green, is a historic home located at Marion Station, Somerset County,

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. It is a -story

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brick house constructed about 1733 on Gales Creek. Additions occurred between 1825 and 1850 with the frame kitchen with an exterior chimney on the

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end, and a smaller utility wing added in 1968. The house represent the first phase of permanent Somerset County buildings that have survived to modern times. Williams' Conquest was listed on the

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in 1984.

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*, including photo from 1985, at Maryland Historical Trust Houses in Somerset County, Maryland Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Houses completed in 1733 National Register of Historic Places in Somerset County, Maryland Marion Station, Maryland {{SomersetCountyMD-NRHP-stub