Scotch Hill, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated community
Scotch Hill is located in Pennsylvania
Scotch Hill
Scotch Hill
Coordinates: 41°19′36″N 79°15′55″W / 41.32667°N 79.26528°W / 41.32667; -79.26528
CountryUnited States
StatePennsylvania
CountyClarion
TownshipFarmington
Government
Elevation
1,516 ft (462 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
16233
16233
Area code814
GNIS feature ID1187152[1]

Scotch Hill is a community that is located in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in the nineteenth century by James J. Scotch and William F. Hill.[2]

History

Per The History of Clarion County Pennsylvania, which was edited by A.J. Davis:

"In 1836 George Alsbach, a native of Union county, purchased the Anderson tract for $1,500, and removed to it with his family from Shippenville. The surrounding country north, east, and south was a howling wilderness. Mr.Alsbach soon replaced the two log cabins, and the half barn of the same material, 'which required props to keep it from falling,' by more comfortable and modern frame dwellings. In the spring of 185 1 Mr. Alsbach laid out a portion of his farm in lots and called the prospective village Scotch Hill, to commemorate its former occupant, Anderson, and his neighbor, McNaughton."

References

  1. ↑ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  2. ↑ Dunaway, Wayland (1944). The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. p. 165.
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