The Scotia Inn

California · USA · Hotel

Ask at the front desk for the most famous of them and you will be told the same name every time. Frank is in one room on the top floor.

Scotia in Humboldt County, California is a company town, built by the Pacific Lumber Company for its workers and constructed almost entirely of the redwood cut in the forests around it.

Several are reported at the Scotia Inn, and the front desk will tell you which one matters. His name is Frank.

Frank is on the top floor, in one room.

The reports there are of sounds, and of feet moving across the floor.

A company town is a particular thing: the mill owned the houses, the shop and the hotel, and the men who filled them worked one of the most dangerous trades in the country. Redwood logging killed and maimed steadily for a century.

The inn was where the company put visitors, buyers and its own management, and it is one of the last large redwood buildings of its kind standing.

The inn takes guests and the town can be driven through.

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The Scotia Inn liegt in California, USA.

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