. . "Scotia was a village in Patton Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, at 40\u00B047\u203259\u2033N 77\u00B056\u203246\u2033W. 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."@en .