Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

=== Scotland School for Veterans' Children ===
The Scotland School for Veterans' Children (SSVC) was a state owned school that offered tuition-free residential education for children of Pennsylvania residents who are veterans or are currently serving in the U.S. armed forces.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://sites.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/Military_Affairs/DMVA/989.htm|title =Scotland School for Veteran's Children|publisher=Scotland School for Veteran's Children website|  date = 2006-02-15|  access-date = 2007-09-21 }} {{Dead link|date=April 2012|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Scotland School was founded in 1863 after two orphaned children begging for food knocked on the door of Pennsylvania's governor, [[Andrew Gregg Curtin]] of [[Centre County, Pennsylvania|Centre County]] north of Chambersburg. Governor Curtin and his wife realized the orphaned children of Pennsylvania's many soldiers had been forgotten. He established 70 'Soldier's Orphan Schools' across the state. Over time, the number of eligible students declined, and in 1895 all of the schools closed except that located in the unincorporated village of [[Scotland, Pennsylvania|Scotland]] about four miles (6&nbsp;km) north of Chambersburg. The name was changed to Scotland School for Veteran's Children, then the Pennsylvania Soldiers Orphans Industrial School, and eligibility criteria changed to provide an education to any child of any veteran, whether that veteran was living or deceased (so the school's founding date is sometimes 1895). It had about 300 students in grades 3–12, annually. More than 10,000 students were educated at the school before it closed in 2009, when Pennsylvania's legislators concurred in the decision of Governor [[Ed Rendell]] to remove funding.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.foundationssvc.org/ |title=Foundation For Scotland School For Veterans' Children |access-date=2010-11-22 |last=Frame |first=C. Frank |year=2009 |work=Foundation web site |publisher=Foundation For Scotland School For Veterans' Children |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619133715/http://www.foundationssvc.org/ |archive-date=June 19, 2010 |quote=It is with a sad heart and a deep sense of loss that we must announce that the Scotland School for Veterans' Children, a 114-year-old veterans' benefit, is closing. As you may know Governor Edward G. Rendell did not fund the school in this year's budget and the legislature upheld that position in their budget approval. |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> The {{convert|186|acre|ha|adj=on}} campus contains about 70 buildings including residential cottages.<ref>[http://sites.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/Military_Affairs/DMVA/987.htm]{{dead link|date=August 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>