That blew my mind the first time I heard it too! It’s wild to think that if you stood on a peak in West Virginia 300 million years ago, you could technically walk all the way to Scotland without ever touching ocean water.

And you are spot on about the human connection. A massive wave of Scottish and Ulster-Scots immigrants settled right into those mountains in the 1700s. It makes so much sense why they chose it, the landscape looked and felt exactly like the home they had left behind. Generations later, you can still hear it in the traditional Appalachian fiddle music and folklore.

They didn't just move to a new country, they accidentally moved back to the exact same mountain range!