The Scottish roots of many Southlanders are recalled both by this memorial and by the name of Glencoe, a locality on State Highway 96 between Mataura and Winton. At Glencoe in Scotland in 1692 many McDonalds were killed without warning by soldiers affiliated with a rival clan, the Campbells. The frenzied but planned attack was justified on the grounds of the McDonalds’ purported disloyalty to the new King William, a Protestant who had driven the Catholic King James from Britain in 1688. The action was widely condemned, but the Crown shielded the perpetrators from punishment.