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Ruskin Ruskin is an unincorporated census-designated
place in Hillsborough
County, Florida, United States. The population was 8,321 at the 2000
census. Situated on the
shores of the Little Manatee River, the town and college were named after the
English writer and social reformist John Ruskin
(1819-1900). In 1907, Dr. George
McAnelly Miller, a former Chicago prosecuting
attorney and professor, and former president of Ruskin College in Trenton,
Missouri, relocated his family to the area, and along with his brother-in-law
Albert Peter
Dickman's family. They purchased land and
started to setup homes, a saw mill, and a school. Mrs. Adaline D.
Miller, (Dr. Miller's wife) founded a
post office on August 7, 1908. This day is recognized as the official founding
day of the town. The Millers began
Ruskin College in 1910 with Dr. Miller serving as president and
Adeline Miller serving as Vice President. Continuing with the college's former
practices, students worked a portion of each day as part of their education and
as a way to pay for tuition and board (that is a very socialist practice, still
practiced in countries like Cuba.) It offered three years of preparatory
classes, students could then attend the college, taking classes in art, drama,
language, literature, music, shorthand, social sciences, and speech. In 1913 the
school has 160 students. At this time U.S. Highway
41 was only a more than a nine foot wide shell road paid for by a $30,000 local
bond issue. Because of the growing importance of truck farming, these roads and
others were built to facilitate the transportation of produce to local markets
throughout the 1920s. The railroad track connected Ruskin to the Seaboard
Airline Railroad line in 1913. On the eve of the college's demise in 1918,
Ruskin had a population of 200 Ruskinites, as they are called. The majority of people appeared to
have been truck growers. These residents supported a saw mill, a turpentine
still, a syrup factory, a black smith, a newspaper, a lawyer, two carpenters,
and three general stores. Rachel W. Billings served as postmaster and as the
Universalist Reverend. With this foundation, it is not surprising that even with
the destruction of the college the colony
survived. Poor crop yields in the
mid to late-1980s drove some farmers to the wall. Many borrowed money, sometimes
as much as $500,000, against their land to plant their crops. Consequently, many
farmers were forced out of business, and others chose to leave farming forever.
Due to the impact of the North Atlantic Trade Agreement in the 1990s which
allowed Mexican tomatoes to flood the U.S. market and with ever increasing water
restrictions, tomato acreage continued to decline. Less than half the number of
acres planted with tomatoes in the early 1990s were planted in 1997. The housing
boom of the first decade of the XXI Century turn most of the tomato and orange
plantations into new housing development, bringing thousand of new inhabitants
to the area. .Income &
Housing Costs Numbers: Estimated median household income in 2008: $34,547 (it
was $28,228 in 2000)
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