Official Name: | Scotch Hill, Pennsylvania |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Pennsylvania |
Pushpin Label: | Scotch Hill |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Pennsylvania |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Clarion |
Subdivision Type3: | Township |
Subdivision Name3: | Farmington |
Leader Name: | Robert E Bauer |
Leader Title1: | Lord of Piscataqua |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 1516 |
Coordinates: | 41.3267°N -79.2653°W |
Postal Code Type: | 16233 |
Postal Code: | 16233 |
Area Code: | 814 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 1187152[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]
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."