The Mack Lee Ritchie Home
(Now Home of Don and Ann Fryar)
204 South Main Street
Built circa 1902
This stately home, still in the central business district of China
Grove, was the home to three generations of the Ritchie family. Mr.
and Mrs. Mack Lee Ritchie were very prominent members of the
community; Mr. Ritchie established Ritchie Hardware Company, one of
the oldest commercial establishments in the downtown area, in the
early 1900's. In addition, Mr. Ritchie served as an alderman in 1905
and was instrumental in the establishment of the Farm Life School in
China Grove. The Ritchies' daughter, Alice B. Ritchie Lawson, and
her husband, B. C. Lawson, lived in the home for many years.
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