North townhouse development would pave over the stream that was the community's primary water source. In 1964, Joyce B. Siegel -- "a young, white Bethesda woman"—became engaged with the Scotland community. It looked like Scotland would quietly disappear until a seemingly unimportant event occurred just before Christmas of 1964. Onto the scene came Mrs. Joyce Siegel, a housewife from nearby Bethesda, who drove up to deliver a load of toys for Scotland's children. It was Siegel's first look at the community, and she was horrified by what she saw and heard. Siegel soon began to mobilize support across the broader Montgomery County communities to "Save Our Scotland" with a formal committee structure created in February 1965 (with Scotland residents (such as Geneva Mason and Melvin Crawford (who later became the organization's President), ministers, and Mrs. Siegel on its board of directors). Save Our Scotland built heavily on faith communities. "We just feel that it is basically morally wrong for affluent people, real-estate operators, and others, to drive these people out of houses just because they do not have enough money and because their skin is not white." Rev. Carl Pritchett, Pastor, Bethesda Presbyterian Church, President, Save Our Scotland, 1966.The group leveraged the human resources of the Washington, D.C., area: many current or former Federal employees volunteered their time bringing critical expertise to navigate emergent challenges in what was a rather complex set of processes over time. To secure government grants, Scotland Community Development, Inc, formed. A $78,400 grant funded legal and other support for designing a plan for adequate housing in Scotland. The resulting plan required numerous land actions, federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) financing, and razing the existing homes. As an indication of the complexity of the process, 26 citizens' associations were convinced to support the necessary rezoning. After many years of extended struggle, negotiation, and planning, the Scotland Development Corporation took control of land, broke ground on April 21, 1968, secured financing (including a $100,000 grant under the 1965 Fair Housing Act, a $1.6M Federal government backed loan in 1967, and a final $425,000 loan in 1970 to finish the project), and built 100 townhouses (25 owned and 75 rental) on ten acres in the late 1960s and early 1970s to replace the deteriorating existing housing stock. 'Scotland community is an example of how a number of people and institutions - many of them incompatible only a