Any Americans ever heard of the small Scottish town called California? Interesting wiki article about the origin of the name. The sign for the town is also pretty cool?

11 comments

1. i never heard of it in my entire life

2. *California is a former pit village…*

   Insert joke. True as well, except the settlements were created for gold miners, not coal.

3. This is the first time I am hearing of it, and I have been to Scotland more than once before.

   For what it’s worth, there are also some examples of the reverse, with Scottish place names in California. There is a town on the far north coast of California that is named Scotia, another town near Point Reyes (north of San Francisco) named Inverness, and a town near Santa Cruz named Ben Lomond.

   There is also a town in Germany called Kalifornien.

4. I have not heard of it but am glad to know about it!

5. That’s actually really cool!

6. There’s probably a dozen towns in the US named California, so we wouldn’t have heard of one in Scotland, nor would it surprise us.

7. California is the golden state. California, Scotland should be the golden village.

   Sunshine state is Florida’s nickname

8. I live in Scotland, I’m actually about an hour away from this place and I’ve never heard of it

9. Never heard of it, interesting bit of trivia.

10. No, never. Cute sign though!

11. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_California

    Is this California holding elections like The California? I don’t think so 😂