Newbury House At Historic Rugby  

" Don't Miss the Annual Thanksgiving Marketplace in Rugby on November 26! Make plans for celebrating Christmas in Rugby on December 4 and 11! Celebrate the New Year at the Harrow Road Cafe! Make plans for celebrating Valentine in Rugby on February 12! Make plans to attend the 31st Annual Festival of British and Appalachian Culture - May 21-22! --> Make plans to attend the 38th Historic Rugby Pilgrimage - August 6-7! Re-enactment of Rugby's Opening Day - October 5, 2005 2005 Special Events Schedule Now Online! 2005 Schedule of Craft Workshops and Outdoor Weekends Now Online! Lodging Accommodations at Historic Rugby Available! Restricted Building Lots in Rugby's Beacon Hill Neighborhood! T ime stands still at Rugby, Tennessee - the restored Victorian village founded in 1880 by British author and social reformer, Thomas Hughes . It was to be a cooperative, class-free, agricultural community for younger sons of English gentry and others wishing to start life anew in America. At its peak, some 350 people lived in the colony. More than 70 buildings of Victorian design graced the East Tennessee townscape. T his would-be Utopia survives today as both a living community and a fascinating historic site, unspoiled by modern development. Twenty original buildings still stand at the southern edge of the Big South Fork National Park , surrounded by rugged river gorges. "