Scottsdale (including Nabowla)
Largest township between Launceston and the eastern coast
Located 63 km east of Launceston and 200 metres above sea level, Scottsdale is the major township in the mountains between Launceston and the east coast. Surrounded by hills, it is very much a timber town. The Forestry Commission has large offices in town. There is also mixed farming in the surrounding district.

The first Europeans into the area were Janet and Andrew Anderson who took up the 'Barnbougle' holding near Bridport in 1833. Two years later Peter Brewer took up land at 'Bowood' where he built a home in 1839. It is oldest building in the district although it is not open to the public.

It wasn't until 1852 that the area began to develop. The Government Surveyor, James Scott (after whom the town is named), tried unsuccessfully to cut a bridle track from St Patrick's River to Cape Portland and, passing through the area he noted that it had 'the best soil in the island'. The area around present-day Scottsdale was surveyed in 1858-59 and named 'Scotts New Country'. It was settled predominantly by Scottish and English settlers and by 1868 a visitors was recording that the township had 'numerous cosy neat cottages with their fruit and flower gardens in the front ... There are five or six hundred inhabitants ... There is yet neither police station nor public house, but the people appear to get on harmoniously enough without them.'