Parton, Dumfries and Galloway

Parton is a hamlet situated on the banks of the River Dee in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

In later years the building nearest the hall was the village shop and post office and was the home of Sam Callander (1922 - 2012), who devoted much of his life to promoting the memory of James Clerk Maxwell.

Murray also built the village hall in 1908 with the motto over the entrance Floreat Partona ('let Parton flourish').

The motto alludes to the village song: Patriœ corona, Terra nobis augeat Segetes Pomona,

', for John Glendonwyn of Parton, patron of the parish church whose arms are included in the carved decoration.

He was famous for developing formulae governing electricity and magnetism as well as the Maxwell distribution in the kinetic theory of gases.