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Very cool given that Appalachian settlers were largely Scottish highlanders.
by leishman 4y ago
Very cool given that Appalachian settlers were largely Scottish highlanders.
- irrational 4y agoJust moving to the other side of the mountain range.
- tssva 4y agoScottish highlander immigrants were not large settlers of Appalachia. Scottish highlander immigrants largely settled in northern New York and coastal areas in southern colonies. The Cape Fear, NC area was a significant area of Scottish highlander settlement. Appalachia was settled largely by the Scots-Irish. The Scots-Irish immigrated from the Ulster area of Ireland where they were known as the Ulster Protestants. The Ulster Protestants originally immigrated to Ulster area through a mixture of voluntary and forced relocation from the Scottish lowlands and northern England.
- jonnycomputer 4y agoThank you for this, as I always had assumed that Scots-Irish just meant settled by a mixture of Scots and Irish, not the Ulster Scots.
- chrisdhoover 4y agoSettlers to Southern Appalachia were from the English - Scottish borderlands. Lands that were historically contested. “Albion’s Seed” is an excellent book describing the migrations from the British Isle to America
- User23 4y agoThe Bastle houses[1] are really interesting. Shows what a vibrant time and place that was. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastle_house https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastle_house
- pluc 4y agoWe have a province called Nova Scotia up here. In its French translation, the latin gets lost and it's just literally New Scotland.
- mushufasa 4y agoThis is also where the term 'HillBilly' originates. Hills because they live in the hills, but 'Billy' because they followed William of Orange ("Bill"), the protestant king of England.