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Center Ridge Road History
This is looking east on Center Ridge in 1905. Looking at the intersection of Center Ridge and 83. The picture was taken from about in front of Bueschers. The first white building was the old hotel. Originally built as a log cabin in i811 by Joel Terrell and his son Wyllis. It was opened as a tavern and was known as the Indian Tavern. The cabin was torn down and a frame building was constructed. On February 24th, 1889 the structure burned down. It was rebuilt on the same site. It later became Machovina’s General store and the in 1945 Roy Spitzer moved his grocery store, the Volunteer Market in from across the street. It was torn down it the 60’s.
The brick building was the Henery Luster General Store built-in 1889 on the corner of Center Ridged and Rt 83. The post office was in the store. The Knights of the Maccabees lodge was upstairs. Luster sold the business to Mr Bates. The building burnt down on September 11, 1912.
The white building after Luster’s was the stagecoach hotel and tavern known as the Farmers Inn built by Joseph Humphery in 1830. It continued as a hotel until 1872 when it was sold and became a private residence. In I946 it was sold and turned into the Old Bones hotel. In 1929 it was rented by a new owner that changed it to the Ridgeville Inn and restaurant. It was an apartment hotel. in 1927 it was sold and the downstairs was renovated and a drug store and jewelry store moved in and later the post office. The building was torn down in 1962.
This is a young couple standing on the north side of Center Ridge Road across from where the fire museum is now. The house to the left was incorporated into part of the Buescher’s hardware store in the late 1940s. The house behind them was the Stacy house, later to become their hatchery. In the 1960’s it became the police station. On the right is the west driveway of the old town hall. The townhall horse shed can be seen in the back.
(Courtesy North Ridgeville Historical Society)
