North
Banchory, Aberdeenshire
Seeds from California
Some of the tallest trees at Crathes carry a North American story that began in nineteenth-century California.
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Scotland & North America: A Shared Story
Explore the deep historical ties between Scotland and North America across landscape, industry, literature, golf and social reform. A curated transatlantic collection connecting Scottish places with American history.
Featured Places & Stories
12 selected places in this curated collection
North
Aberfeldy, Perthshire
Dewar's Goes West
Dewar's American story began before Aberfeldy Distillery opened, when the family whisky found an early audience across the Atlantic.
North
Perth
Frederick Douglass Challenges Scotland
In 1846 Frederick Douglass came to Perth and made American slavery a Scottish question.
East
Dunfermline, Fife
Carnegie Comes Home
Andrew Carnegie left Dunfermline as a boy. Decades later, some of the fortune he made in America came back with him.
East
Dunbar, East Lothian
John Muir Before Yosemite
Long before Yosemite, John Muir was learning to look at landscape around his childhood home in Dunbar.
East
Gullane, East Lothian
The Course That Stayed with Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus's relationship with Muirfield lasted far beyond his Open victory here.
South
Melrose, Scottish Borders
When America Read Walter Scott
For a generation of North American readers, Walter Scott helped supply the picture of Scotland before they ever came here.
South
Kirkbean, Dumfries & Galloway
John Paul Jones: The Scottish Beginning
A modest cottage by the Solway marks the Scottish beginning of a life that became part of the American Revolution.
South
Maybole, Ayrshire
Eisenhower's Castle Retreat
After the Second World War, Culzean became a place Dwight Eisenhower could return to, not simply a place that remembered him.
West
Paisley, Renfrewshire
Thread Empire
Paisley's thread crossed the Atlantic early, and the business behind it grew into manufacturing on both sides of the ocean.
West
New Lanark, South Lanarkshire
Owen Takes the Idea West
Robert Owen tried to carry ideas tested beside the Clyde into a much more ambitious experiment in the United States.
West
Glasgow
Tobacco Fortunes and Slavery
Glasgow's Atlantic wealth is still visible in streets and buildings paid for by tobacco grown by enslaved labour in Virginia and Maryland.
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