Scotia’s Winema Theater [Photo via Wikicommons]
On Christmas Day, Popular Mechanics posted an article entitled
12 Amazing U.S. Company Towns You Can Still Visit and Scotia, of course, was featured. The piece correctly noted, “Take one look at the well-designed wooden structures in
Scotia, California, and it’s clear that it benefits from being a town founded by a lumber company.”
Railroad track being laid through the Scotia Bluffs in 1900. Imagine the fossils they found! [Photo via Wikicommons]
We’ve only got access to a few images of this beautiful place on hand but, if anyone else is a fan of this gorgeous little town, we’d love to see the photos you’ve taken over the years.
Stock photo of St. Patrick Catholic Church Scotia
Winema building is gorgeous but it sucks like everything in town in closed and empty
I remember the mill tour the kids and I loved it, after that idiotic redwood summer the mills had an excuse to quit their tours. Too much BS to keep operating so we can just watch our timber die and burn.
The Scotia Inn is a cool building with curly redwood in the bar.
It was a sad day when the Carlotta Inn burned.
History of Scotia, a company town, is interesting:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotia,_California
Huell Howser came and did a piece on Scotia for “California’s Gold” in 2004, while it was still a company town.
https://blogs.chapman.edu/huell-howser-archives/2005/01/09/scotia-californias-gold-7002/
Also, shameless self-promotion: I wrote a song about Scotia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnWwrjL_HJg
I miss old Huell, guy was great!