The website visitor 'Briarscratch' originally submitted a very excellent photo of what he called the "Scotch Settlement House".  He said it was built sometime between 1830 and 1860.
I had always wanted to get out and take more photos of this house and a few years later, via this website, another visitor - Rod R. - sent me info and a map on how to find this building.  The map for directions as well as the site map are above.
I set out to find this house and any surrounding ruins one day in mid-April 2008, once the weather got nicer.  After updating the maps in my GPS and selecting the location to find via the GPS (according to Rod's map) I little trouble finding the Pleasant Lake Wildlife Area's parking lot on the small and kinda rough dirt road called the Lockie Road, off from the Scotch Settlement Road near the Rossie/Oxbow area.  I had to park the car a distance away from the parking area as I didn't think my car would make it the last little distance.
Once at the parking area the DEC land sign was visible and little else.  The trail lead into the pines, just as Rod R. describes in his map.  A short trip over a short swampy area (the remains of some sort of metal piece of equipment is sitting in the swamp, farm-related?).
In the pines the trail itself is overgrown and hard to even find after a bit.  But I headed in the likely direction that the trail seemed to be heading toward but it was quickly gone.  Fortunately a quick look around was all I needed.
There it was, a short distance away - the ruins were easily seen.  An incredible and beautiful ruined gem.
I did a quick walk-around as well as went inside (if you can call it "inside", there's little left in the way of walls).  I also walked around it a bit and found what seem to be the extremely old ruins of other buildings, hard to even believe that they are ruins and not just natural formations (see above).  One is larger, a barn perhaps.  Another seemed to be not very wide but quite long.  This one had just remains of wood and a depression.
Nearby are also the remains of some clearings (on the edge of a small cliff and near a stream), some depressions that were probably wells and outhouses, etc.  Beside one depression, a little further from the house is a small hand-wheel sort of thing (see photo above).  Beside the house sits a large piece of metal (see photo above, sitting beside my backpack); a burning barrel, or maybe something that was brought in more recently by partiers or hunters?
What remains of the building itself is mostly white sparkly granite interspaced with what also looks like a softer stone, sandstone maybe, mixed in.  The majority of the building has collapsed inward, with what was probably the front still mostly standing, and part of the sides.  Very little of the back is standing and there seem to be three cellar sections.  The front cellar section has a large, very old tree growing out of it - showing just how old these ruins are and how long they have probably been abandoned.
Likely the front and rear sections of cellar had wooden structures over them, the middle being the stone.  Above the doorways are some remaining pieces of wood, which all look charred.  Possibly the building had burned?
There are no remains of any roads near it, except for the Lockie Road quite a distance out.
After taking many, many photos; marking the location with my GPS; and also taking a lot of video (which will be added soon) I reluctantly headed back to the car - wondering about the story behind this house and the people who built and lived there.