R.B. Fitch, who serves as both builder and developer of Fearrington Village, was born and raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, just a few miles north of Fearrington. At that time, the population of the town of Chapel Hill was around 4,000 people. R.B.'s father and grandfather were in the retail lumber and building material business, and his family has lived in this area since the 1700s.

After R.B. graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1955, he spent three years flying F-100's in the Air Force. During a tour in England, R.B. came to love the look and feel of the English countryside. After his return to the States, R.B. founded Fitch Creations, Inc, which began with remodeling kitchens, building homes "on your lot for $12,500," and developing small subdivisions.

In 1974, R.B. began Fearrington, a 30 year adventure which would combine his small-town, know-your-neighbor upbringing with the style and charm of the English villages he had come to love. He and his late wife, Jenny, purchased the 640-acre dairy farm that had been in the Fearrington family for generations and started the conversion of the farm area and its surrounding land into a country village. The original farm house and outbuildings now house the shops and restaurants of the Village Center, while over 1200 families own homes nestled in the surrounding woodlands and fields.

Over the years, R.B. and his team have created innovative neighborhoods and homes at Fearrington that accurately tapped into homebuyers' preferences before their mainstream adaptation in other planned communities. His home and neighborhood designs have been profiled in magazines such as Southern Living, Better Homes & Gardens, Good Housekeeping , Family Circle and the national trade magazine, Professional Builder. For leadership in incorporating practical energy saving techniques and technology in residential construction, he received a Professional Achievement Award from Professional Builder in the category of Energy Conservation. One of his most recent neighborhoods, Camden Park, was cited by the National Association of Home Builders as one of the nation's best examples of "pedestrian-supportive developments". Helping R.B. in the master planning and neighborhood designs of Fearrington has been landscape architect Dan Sears, who in 2009 received The North Carolina Award, the highest honor from the state's American Society of Landscape Architects chapter.

R.B.'s own home is in the Village, and Fearrington is the only development in which he is involved. "Fitch Creations gingerly develops the land, designs and builds the homes, owns and operates the inn, restaurant and most of the shops" says R.B.  "I hope you come and visit with us soon."