🌲 Scotia, Pennsylvania Hidden in the forests of Centre County, Scotia is a historic ghost town that once thrived during Pennsylvania’s iron mining boom in the late 1800s. Founded by industrialist Andrew Carnegie, the village was built around a large iron ore mining operation that supplied his steel empire. At its peak, Scotia had homes, a school, a company store, and hundreds of workers—but when the mines closed in the early 1900s, the town was abandoned, leaving only traces of its past scatter