Historic Rugby (TN) (Images of America)

Stagg, Barbara

ISBN 10: 0738552623 / ISBN 13: 9780738552620

Published by Arcadia Publishing, 2007

About this Item

Signed by author. Cover has edge wear, minor creases, minor scratches, small bent/rubbed cover/page corners, rubbed spine. No writing in text.

Seller Inventory # 051969

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Historic Rugby (TN) (Images of America)
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0738552623
• ISBN 13: 9780738552620
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Regional History
  • ABE
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Synopsis

The Rugby colony opened amid great fanfare in 1880 on East Tennessee's sparsely settled and rugged Cumberland Plateau. Famous British author and social reformer Thomas Hughes was the most involved and dedicated of Rugby's Anglo-American founders. He intended Rugby to be a class-free, agrarian community based on cooperative enterprise, culture, and religious freedom. During its first decade, hundreds immigrated to Rugby from the British Isles; hundreds more came from other parts of America. Some stayed briefly, some for years, some for life. More than 60 cottages, villas, and commercial and institutional buildings of distinctive Victorian styles were built during Rugby's early years. Though Rugby was briefly the most thriving community on the northern plateau, many factors prevented realization of Hughes's utopian goals. Rugby today is a rare surviving example of 19th-century utopian community building. The historic town plan, surrounding woodland and rivers, and key original buildings survive, unspoiled by modern development, through committed restoration and preservation. Heritage tourism is bringing new life.

About the Author

Barbara Stagg has been executive director of Historic Rugby since 1977, building on the work of her late brother, who began the preservation effort in 1966. Using the best images and written resources from the Rugby archives, she narrates a visual journey through the intriguing history of Rugby, Tennessee.