 The Neil Photo Album is available for viewing at Humboldt State University’s Special Collections.During the mid-to-late 19th century, Scotia was one of numerous company towns established across the Pacific Northwest, many of which closed down during the Great Depression in the 1930s.Scotia was one of the handful of company towns to survive this period and further into the 20th century, and most of the existing houses were built between the 1920s and 1950s.