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
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 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
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
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
