If you grew up in Scotland, or you’ve ever driven Route 14 past the Huntington Homestead, you’ll find your town on this map just as it stands in 2026. Look for your road. Huntington Road, Palmer Road, Brooklyn Turnpike, Station Road, Waldo Road, Miller Road, Kemp Road, Khourie Road and Cemetery Road are all printed by name, along with many more.

Scotland is in Windham County, in the northeast corner of Connecticut that people call the Quiet Corner.

KNOWOL made this map in 2026 from public survey data, and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded hills, from Parish Hill in the north down to the woods along the Sprague line, come from United States Geological Survey elevation data. The streets and the town line come from the Census Bureau, right down to roads like Gager Hill Road. A guide of 21 numbered landmarks runs along the bottom, with the National Historic Landmark and the National Register sites marked, and we checked those against National Park Service records.

Isaac Magoon’s Scotland

The town’s story begins in 1700, when Isaac Magoon bought 1,950 acres from the town of Windham. He called the place Scotland, after his family’s homeland. Scotland stayed part of Windham until May 1857, when it was incorporated as a town of its own. That’s the year on the title panel: Incorporated 1857.

Scotland never had large-scale industry, and its economy has stayed mostly agricultural. It’s the least populous town in Windham County, with 1,576 people at the 2020 census, and it still governs itself by town meeting. The town lies in the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor, better known as The Last Green Valley.

Map of Scotland, Connecticut, with the village center, the Huntington Homestead, Palmer Road and a guide of 21 numbered landmarks

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The Village Center

The small cluster of numbers in the middle of the map is the village, where Route 14 crosses the town. At its heart is the Samuel Huntington Birthplace (6), a National Historic Landmark on Huntington Road. Samuel Huntington was born here on July 3, 1731, the son of a farmer and clothier, when Scotland was still part of Windham. At 16 he was apprenticed to a cooper, and he taught himself law. He signed the Declaration of Independence, served as president of the Continental Congress from 1779 to 1781, and was Governor of Connecticut from 1786 until he died in 1796.

The house he grew up in was built early in the 1700s. It’s a classic New England saltbox, its roof sloping down to the first floor at the back, around a big central chimney. Inside, the woodwork and plaster are almost all original. In 1994 people in town formed the Governor Samuel Huntington Trust to save it, and the trust now opens it as a museum from May through October, on the first and third Saturdays of the month.

Scotland Town Hall (12) and the Scotland Congregational Church (17) stand right beside the homestead, and the Scotland Public Library (14) is just to the north. The library building is also home to the D’Elia Antique Tool Museum, opened in 2005, with more than 1,200 old woodworking planes, some dating to the middle 1700s. The Scotland Volunteer Memorial Hall (7) and Scotland Elementary School (15) are just to the northeast, and the guide also lists the Scotland Post Office (2), the Scotland Volunteer Fire Department (18) and the Christian Fellowship Church (16).

Rochambeau’s Road

In the east of town, Route 14 is called Palmer Road, and about 2,000 feet of it is on the National Register as the March Route of Rochambeau’s Army: Palmer Road (11). French troops under Rochambeau marched this way in 1781, between Providence and Yorktown, and again on their way back in 1782. Their chroniclers called the road east of Scotland narrow, steep and stony, and on the march west their baggage wagons reached camp in Windham late. Today it’s paved, but it still climbs the way they described, between fieldstone walls and open farmland, much as it looked to the French. It was listed in 2003.

Northeast of the village is the James V. Spignesi Jr. Wildlife Management Area (10). The guide lists it a second time with Junior spelled out (21). Up in the northeast, the guide lists the Rock Spring Wildlife Refuge (5) and the Rock Spring Preserve (13) at the same spot, and the Dave Shoemaker Demonstration Forest (8) is a little to the west of them.

The Waldo House and the Southern Woods

At the far south end of town, on Waldo Road, which forms the line with Sprague, is the Edward Waldo House (4). Edward Waldo, a farmer and deacon of the Congregational church, built it about 1715 on land he’d bought in 1702. It was the first house built in what’s now Scotland. Six generations of Waldos lived in it, more than 250 years in one family, and among the family who lived here was the portrait painter Samuel Lovett Waldo. In 1975 Ruth Fanshaw Waldo gave the house to the Scotland Historical Society with everything in it, and the society has made it a museum.

Mohegan State Forest (3) lies mainly in Scotland, with smaller pieces in Sprague and Canterbury. It began with a gift of three hundred acres in 1960 and is open for hiking and hunting. The Sarah A. and John F. Pappenheimer Preserve (19) isn’t far from the Waldo House, and the Nathan B. and Anne Perry Talbot Wildlife Area (20) is to the northwest. The Harry and Margaret Bowers Recreational Field (9) is south of the village, and the guide also lists Devotion Woods (1).

This map of Scotland makes a handsome addition to a living room, office, library or den, and it can even help teach children the geography and history of the town. It’s a thoughtful gift for anyone who calls Scotland home, grew up here, or moved away. Created by KNOWOL in 2026, it’s printed on museum quality archival paper in three sizes. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Scotland map.

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