Living Off The Land
Area mountain folk like the Massengales farmed and used the natural resources of the forest to build their log cabins and outbuildings. They produced virtually all of the goods they needed throughout the 18th and 19th . . . — — Map (db m219897) HM
Gentlemen's Swimming Hole & Meeting of the Waters Loop Trail Into the Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area
This walk down into the Clear Fork River gorge and along the river until it joins White Oak Creek is beautiful, ecologically . . . — — Map (db m219906) HM
The Massengale Family
Independent and Self-Reliant
The Dempsey Massengale, Jr. family lived on this ridgetop just south of present-day Rugby from the 1860s to the early 1900s. The cabin faced the mid-19th century historic trace that Rugby . . . — — Map (db m219901) HM
The origins of this home and boarding house and just who built it are not yet certain. An 1892 historic picture shows it nearly completed and lived in but lacking its front verandah and exterior lap siding.
Research does provide some background . . . — — Map (db m219903) HM
J.H. Marvin - Practical Carpenter & Builder
Plans and specifications made to order.
All work promptly attended to. Central Avenue, Rugby
The above ad appeared in the very first issue of The Rugbeian newspaper in January, 1881, and ran for . . . — — Map (db m219902) HM
Look across the field toward the left wood line. That is where Rugby's first hotel, the Tabard Inn stood, facing the Clear Fork River below. It was designed by Boston architect George Fuller and completed in 1880, just in time for the October 5 . . . — — Map (db m219905) HM
Records show that the interesting combination of home and store that stood here was built in 1881 by Thomas Fardon. He was one of a number of New England colonists drawn to Rugby, and came from Deering, Maine.
He was well known in the colony as . . . — — Map (db m219904) HM
The Dempsey Massengale, Jr. family lived on this ridgetop just south of present-day Rugby from the 1860s to the early 1900s.
According to deed records, Dempsey bought a 50-acre tract of land in north Morgan County from his father on December . . . — — Map (db m219900) HM
Born in Germany in 1800, he became a successful businessman after moving to New York. He was decorated by Belgium King Leopold I for establishing the first ship line between Antwerp and New York. He was U.S. Consul to Baden-Baden 1845-47. . . . — — Map (db m173767) HM
Built in 1904, Morgan County's iconic courthouse and square anchor the community's central business district. The tower houses a 900-pound bell and four-sided clock with four-foot hands. The only other clock of its kind resides in the Smithsonian . . . — — Map (db m173771) HM
Korean War Casualties
Charles Ashley · Walter C. Haag ·
Lester Ward ·
Rueben W. Freytag ·
Dean Johnson ·
Raymond C. Lamance ·
Frank Watson ·
George Walls — — Map (db m173968) WM
Vietnam Casualties
Rexie L. Armes
David W. Holmes
Robert A. Lovelace
Donald R. Mathis
Dennis W. Vaughn
John Douglas Ward
Clarence Barnes
Kirby L. Hamby — — Map (db m173967) WM
World War I Casualties
Jessie Brannon
Martin C. Brown
Joe Carson
John Daughtery
John W. Fletcher
Harrison Jackson
Ernest Johnson
Thomas R. Jordan
George Kennedy
Joe Nance
A.C. Peters
Daniel Pitman
Isham . . . — — Map (db m173970) WM
World War II Casualties
Carl C. Aikens
Wilburn Bardill
George Baughman Jr.
Rex Dale Boardman
Amos Bosley
William R. Brock Jr.
Elzie Brown
Edward Ray Bunch
J.L. Byrd Jr.
Walter Byrd
George W.Clark
Marvin Cromwell . . . — — Map (db m173978) WM
Tennessee ratified secession in June 1861, but Morgan County, like most East Tennessee counties, voted to remain in the Union. Bitter divisions occurred as many residents supported the Confederacy, including George Gerding, founder of Wartburg. . . . — — Map (db m173875) HM
