Niagara Fruitman Magazine

The Woodruff-Lowrey General Store was built by Richard Woodruff (known as “King Dick”) around 1812 and was one of two in St. Davids at the time. During the War of 1812, his shop was occupied by the Americans and used as a Commissary. It was burned along with the village in 1814.
The business was eventually rebuilt at the southeast corner of Four Mile Creek Road and York Road, where it was under the operation of George Woodruff until 1893. Edwin David Lowrey and then later his brother, Charles, took over the operation of the store. Eventually, the building would house the Niagara Fruitman Magazine and The Growers Monthly. The Fruitman was not the first regular publication in St. Davids. In 1816, the St. Davids Spectator was published, later to become the Niagara Spectator and Canadian Argus.
The building was torn down, along with many of the older buildings in the village, when major road widening occurred in the 1960s.