About Scotland, Connecticut

Scotland is a town of 1,576 people in Windham County, the fewest of any town in the county. Isaac Magoon came to the new settlement of Windham in 1698 and set off east into country no one had settled. In 1700 he bought 1,950 acres from Windham, put up a small house beside Merrick's Brook, and named the place Scotland for the land his family came from.

Good soil and enough water to run mills drew about twenty more families within two or three years, and a sawmill went up on the brook. For Sunday meeting they rode seven or eight miles to Windham Green over a rough trail, until 1732, when Scotland was made a parish with about eighty families. It gathered its own church on October 22, 1735, and remained part of Windham until it was incorporated as a town in May 1857.

“The youngest daughter is always the favorite.”
Edwin Baker Gager, 1892
  • Born here on July 3, 1731Samuel Huntington grew up in a saltbox on today's Route 14, the son of a farmer and clothier. Apprenticed to a cooper at 16, he learned Latin, read law in borrowed books and married Martha Devotion, the minister's daughter and a childhood playmate. He later signed the Declaration of Independence, presided over the Continental Congress from 1779 to 1781 and governed Connecticut from 1786 until his death in 1796. His brother Jonathan wrote the old round "Scotland's Burning."
  • The French army's roadRochambeau's French troops marched over the road east of the village in 1781, on their way from Providence to Yorktown, and came back the same way in 1782. Their chroniclers complained that it was narrow, steep and stony, and on the westward march the baggage wagons rolled into camp at Windham late. Palmer Road still climbs between fieldstone walls and open fields much as the French saw it.
  • The first house, about 1715Edward Waldo, a farmer and church deacon, bought land at the south end of town in 1702 and built the first house in what is now Scotland around 1715. Six generations of Waldos lived there for over 250 years, and the family produced the portrait painter Samuel Lovett Waldo. Ruth Fanshaw Waldo gave the house and everything in it to the Scotland Historical Society in 1975, and the society runs it as a museum.
  • Its own town in 1857Scotland's first town meeting took place on July 4, 1857, with a celebration in the church afterward. The town had about a thousand people in 1860 but fewer than five hundred by 1892, as its young people left for Providence, Norwich, Hartford and even Nebraska. Those who stayed went dry by vote in 1884, organized Shetucket Grange in 1887, funded a free library in 1894 and combined the five district schools into one school in 1895.

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Names on the Scotland map

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Places and landmarks14

  • Mohegan State Forest
  • Christian Fellowship Church
  • Dave Shoemaker Demonstration Forest
  • Devotion Woods
  • Harry and Margaret Bowers Recreational Field
  • James V. Spignesi Jr. Wildlife Management Area
  • March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Palmer Road
  • Nathan B. and Anne Perry Talbot Wildlife Area
  • Rock Spring Preserve
  • Rock Spring Wildlife Refuge
  • Scotland Elementary School
  • Scotland Post Office
Show all 14 places
  • Scotland Public Library
  • Scotland Town Hall

Streets and roads14

  • Kemp Rd
  • Brooklyn Tpke
  • Littlefield Rd
  • Pinch St
  • Rood Rd
  • Kasacek Rd
  • Huntington Rd
  • Gager Hill Rd
  • Plains Rd
  • Palmer Rd
  • Khourie Rd
  • Devotion Rd
  • Station Rd
  • Waldo Rd

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The art of mapping a place

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  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

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Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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