Historic Rugby Village: Where the Past Never Left, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO

Tucked away in Northeast Tennessee, Historic Rugby Village was founded in 1880 as a bold experiment in ideal living. Created by author Thomas Hughes, the village was meant to be a utopia—orderly, enlightened, and harmonious. The dream didn’t last.

Disease, hardship, and disappointment took hold, with typhoid fever claiming many of Rugby’s earliest residents. Though the village survived, something of its original hope seemed to fracture—and never fully leave.

Today, Rugby remains remarkably preserved, its Victorian buildings standing quietly among the hills. W...