Scotia, Pennsylvania
Scotia was a village in Patton Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, at 40°47′59″N 77°56′46″W / 40.79972°N 77.94611°WCoordinates: 40°47′59″N 77°56′46″W / 40.79972°N 77.94611°W. Although the community was called Scotia, the name of the local post office was Benore (Ben being the Gaelic for "mountain [of]").
It got its start when Andrew Carnegie, through the Edgar Thompson Steel Company, leased large tracts of iron ore in the township. Small-scale mining had taken place here since the late 18th century, but Carnegie organized a major effort to exploit the deposits in 1880. Ore was removed from a broad open pit, washed to separate it from clay, and loaded onto railcars. The Pennsylvania Railroad had extended its Fairbrook Branch to the village in 1881, and hauled the ore to steel mills in Pittsburgh. There was also an extensive narrow-gauge railroad in the pits to haul ore to the washer, and several artesian wells and a reservoir to supply water for ore washing.
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