Valley Railway, which closed to passengers in 1964. The town is now largely a dormitory community for people who work in Stirling and further afield (e.g. Glasgow and Edinburgh). Location and transport It is one of the Hillfoots Villages, situated between the Ochil Hills range to the north and the River Devon to the south. Dollar is east of Stirling on the A91 road to St Andrews. The Devon Valley Railway linking Alloa and Kinross closed to passengers in 1964 and to freight in 1973. Economy Attempts were made to mine lead and copper in Dollar Glen from the 18th century and possibly earlier, but these were of no economic significance. Coal mining in the area began around the same time and, until 1973, supplied the Kincardine Power Station, and later, the Longannet Power Station with coal from the Upper Hirst seam. A tiny private non-NCB coal mine operated from the Harviestoun estate from the mid-1970s, partly filling the gap that the closed NCB left, whilst there was still local demand for coal. In common with the other Hillfoots Villages, the textiles industry played an important part in the town's development. The Harviestoun Brewery was established west of Dollar in 1985, before its move to Alva. Governance From 1891 to 1975 the town had its own council. It is now within Clackmannanshire council area. It forms part of the Clackmannanshire East ward which includes Clackmannan, Comely Bank, Dollar & Muckhart. In the 2017 local elections, residents of the ward elected three councillors—one each from the Scottish National Party, the Labour Party and the Conservative Party. Provosts of Dollar Dollar had a provost from 1891 to 1975. The provosts were: James Beveridge Henderson (1891–1893) David Westwood (1893–1896) Richard Malcolm FRSGS (1896–1899) John Drysdale (1899–1902) M Fisher (1902–1908) James Benson Green (1908–1913) and (1919–1925) Lavinia Malcolm (1913–1919), wife of Richard Malcolm (above), the first and only female Provost Cpt Stewart Fairweather Butchart MC (1925–1931) C Allsopp (1931–1937) R Waddell (1937–1939) J Scott (1939–1943) P Walton (1943–1946) Alexander McLean Cowan (1946–1950) J Crawford Shaw (1950–1953) J Hewitt (1953–1956) J Muckersie (1956–1962) J M Miller (1962–1965) H Moss (1965–1968) Dr William Young Galloway (1968–1971) the town GP E M M Breingan (1971–1975) Notable people William Auld (1924–2006) poet and Esperanto author, nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, lived in Dollar until his death According to the Pictish Chronicle, Amlaíb Conung, the