Qualla: Evanton https://qualla.com/evanton en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/k/b/evanton-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Evanton https://qualla.com/evanton Evanton: Introduction https://qualla.com/evanton/ Photo credit Brian MacLennan, CC BY-SA 2.0. Alexander Fraser bought the estate in 1806, laid out a grid of streets at right angles to the old fermtoun of Drummond, and named his new village after his son Evan. He named the streets after his plantations. Camden, Livera, and Hermitage all appear on the modern Ordnance Survey map of Evanton, and each refers to a property in Trinidad or Grenada where Fraser and his Baillie in-laws held people in slavery. In 1813 there were 210 enslaved people at Camden alone. Evanton's tidy regularity, which a visiting reverend praised in 1840, was funded by their forced labour.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/k/b/evanton-wp/gfkb-evanton-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Evanton: Drummond Before Evanton https://qualla.com/evanton/ Photo credit Deacon of Pndapetzim at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Before there was Evanton, there was Drummond - an old ferm toun on the same ground, settled who knows when, within the ancient parish of Kiltearn. Place-name evidence puts a Gaelic church here before the year 800. Three lordly residences stood within a few kilometres: Balconie Ca...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/k/b/evanton-wp/gfkb-evanton-drummond-before-evanton.mp3 0:06 2 full Evanton: Money From the West Indies https://qualla.com/evanton/ Photo credit Calum from Edinburgh, Scotland, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1806 Alexander Fraser paid £4,500 for an instalment on the Inchcoulter (or Balconie) estate, the money channelled through his wife's uncle Evan Baillie. Fraser's fortune came from plantation slavery in Trinidad and Grenada. He laid out the new village in regular streets and na...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/k/b/evanton-wp/gfkb-evanton-money-from-the-west-indies.mp3 0:06 3 full Evanton: The Gorge and the Dragon https://qualla.com/evanton/ Photo credit Deacon of Pndapetzim at English Wikipedia, Public domain. The Allt Graad, sometimes called the River Glass, flows from Loch Glass near Ben Wyvis for nine kilometres before emptying into the Cromarty Firth. About three kilometres before it reaches the firth, it cuts through the Black Rock Gorge - a narrow slot a few hundred metres long a...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/k/b/evanton-wp/gfkb-evanton-the-gorge-and-the-dragon.mp3 0:06 4 full Evanton: Balloons and the Cold War https://qualla.com/evanton/ Photo credit Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0. The RAF built an airfield near Evanton on Alness Bay in 1922. It was first known as the Novar Base, then as HMS Fieldfare. The largest aircraft ever to land there was a USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress; on Empire Day 1939 the base opened to the public and 9,000 visitors came through - ...

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