Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
“Scotland Hotel is a historic hotel building located at Scotland, Indiana. It was built in 1879, and is a two-story, frame building with a rear section dated to the mid-1860s.”
Wikipedia article Scotland Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
The chapter on Taylor Township in Early History of Greene County, Indiana : As Taken from the Official Records, and Compiled from Authentic Recollection, by Pioneer Settlers ... Including Brief Sketches of Pioneer Families ..., published 1875 names Scotland. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Old Uncle David Wallace built the first log cabin on the farm where John Summerville now lives, about a half mile south of Scotland. David Wallace and the two Anderson brothers came direct to Greene county from Edinburg, Scotland, and made the first entry of land in this settlement.
Passage source: Early History of Greene County, Indiana : As Taken from the Official Records, and Compiled from Authentic Recollection, by Pioneer Settlers ... Including Brief Sketches of Pioneer Families ..., published 1875.
William Ferguson was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1793. He served in the British army for about three years, under Prince Regent George IV, and was married in Scotland, to Christiana Cullen, and their union was blessed with four children - three boys and one girl. They came to Greene county about twenty years ago, where the old lady died. Mr. Ferguson is about eighty-three years of age. He is a member of the United Presbyterian church and Sabbath school. He is in good health, and walks to Scotland for his mails !
Passage source: Early History of Greene County, Indiana : As Taken from the Official Records, and Compiled from Authentic Recollection, by Pioneer Settlers ... Including Brief Sketches of Pioneer Families ..., published 1875.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Taylor Township - 1,128 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Scotland Hotel: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Prospect |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scotland, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2014 | Flood | Scotland | 1 killed, $100 | The White River in the area of Bogard Creek was extensively flooded, but not at a record stage. Recent rainfall of one half to three quarters of a inch on wet to very wet ground caused Bogard Creek to overflow. The time of the flooding was estimated based on the stage at a nearby river.||The Greene County Daily World reported that a rural Bloomfield man drowned after he apparently slipped and fell into a flood-swollen creek in Taylor Township on the morning of April the 8th. The victim, 62, lived on the property where Bogard Creek flows on U.S. 231, south of Bloomfield. The Greene County Coroner said no foul play is indicated and it looks like the victim may have been walking along the creek bank and simply fell into the water. The exact time of the incident has not been determined, but his body was found at about 11:30 AM by two close friends who had come to check on the victim. The victim's body was in two to three feet deep water and had been retrieved from the water by the friends when authorities arrived at the site, which is located in Taylor Township between County Road 400 and County Road 600. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scotland | $500 | Trees and power lines blown down. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scotland | - | no account filed |
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Richland-Plummer Creek Covered Bridge | 5.8 miles | 1993 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 93000467 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Greene County | All 6 listed properties in this county. |
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