Scotland Neighborhood

Scotland was once characterized by stand-alone residences surrounded by trees along Scotland Drive, which intersects with Seven Locks Road. The original footprints of many of the houses were built in the reconstruction era, then added to over the decades as families grew and lots were divided. Though the residents paid taxes like all County residents, not all the houses had running water, so the people used outhouses and carried water year-round-- either from the single hand-pump in the center of the neighborhood, or from the nearby creek and spring. The County did not provide trash service to Scotland, so a large project organized by Save Our Scotland in 1967 was a community-wide trash removal that took several weekends of effort from volunteers and residents. 

After the committee achieved clear title to the land that comprised Scotland, a team of architects, developers, lawyers, and contract negotiators, along with input from residents, designed government-subsidized housing for Scotland in the form of three-story townhouses. All the homes pictured below--with the exception of Frances Palmer's-- were bulldozed in the winter of 1968 and replaced with mansard-roofed townhouses, surrounded by curbs, gutters, sidewalks, and driveways,  by the summer of 1969.