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Ruskin, Florida

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fields had been cultivated, and tomatoes, cabbages, onions and other crops were being raised. There was a nursery established for ornamentals. Thousands of palms were ready for market, and streets were being graded in certain portions of the town that lay off the highway. The community's social life included four or five clubs organized by women, ranging from the Woman's Twentieth Century Club to the League of Women Voters. A new school was erected, as well as a church. With the road developments auto service was provided to
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possible ideas. The final design concept was based on John Ruskin's social ideal that human happiness requires the mix of the head, heart and hand. Mural imagery includes references to historic Ruskin, the agricultural and environmentally sensitive setting across the bay from urban centers, development and movement to future possibility. Maynard Clark donated the mural site.
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Within the community, the population was spread out; 26.5% were under the age of 18, 9.6% were from 18-24, 26.8% from 25-44, 21.1% from 45-64, and 16.1% were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 104.1 males. For every 100 females above age 18, there
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In 1960, Ruskin was still very rural. Agriculture dominated Ruskin throughout the 1970s, but its influence began to wane. The greater Ruskin area's population reached 17,000 by 1975, many of whom were not farmers, but suburbanites. By 1982, Ruskin produced approximately 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) of
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The 2008 Ruskin Community Mural was drawn by artist Michael Parker and The Amazing Community Mural Team. Parker with assistant Dave Bush recruited a community group of Ruskin teens and adults. The intergenerational group engaged in an intense collaboration of research, photography, and discussion of
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in the south and extending in as far inland as Sumter, Polk, Hardee, DeSoto, and Highlands Counties. It also is responsible for weather forecasts and severe storm warnings for the western Florida coastal waters from Cedar Key to Bonita Beach and out 60 nautical miles (110 km; 69 mi) which
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The annual BIG DRAW-Ruskin began in 2008 to mark the 100th anniversary of Ruskin as a community whose founders were influenced by the writings and philosophy of John Ruskin. It is inspired by and linked to the international Campaign for Drawing first initiated in Great Britain to honor John Ruskin.
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In 1930 Ruskin's population had reached 709, consisting of 395 males and 314 females. Despite the deed restrictions against African Americans owning or leasing property, 140 black people resided in Ruskin. The rest of the population was white, of whom 514 were native and 52 were foreign-born. Three
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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 21st
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The Millers began a new 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. It offered
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In 1925, Ruskin's population remained at 200. It had six hotels, two sawmills, one turpentine still, a public library, the Ruskin Telephone Company, four groceries, one garage, a well driller, two restaurants, a dry goods dealer, a carpenter, and a number of fruit and truck growers. Some of the
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The South County Coalition for Community Concerns (SCCCC) established in 1984 was a Ruskin-based Coalition comprising public and private health and human service organizations, government agencies, schools, churches and concerned citizens from South County. The history of the SCCCC (1980-2002)
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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
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The 2009 Community Mural-in-the-Round Project was coordinated by Josette Urso and the mural was painted on the Mary & Martha House building. Both the 2008 and 2009 projects were commissioned by the SouthShore Arts Council and funded by grants from the John Crawford Fund of the Community
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By 1990, changes to the downtown had occurred. The end of the traditional Ruskin Days parade (due to rising costs) and a great fire that wiped out the popular Thriftway supermarket and adjacent furniture, hardware and MC Topps department stores changed the landscape of the town center.
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With many Ruskin residents working in Tampa during World War II, people from Tampa began hearing of the benefits of the rural community. Shortly after the war, Ruskin slowly became more and more suburban as people not related to the agricultural business moved into the community.
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with no spouse present, and 30.0% were non-familial/roommate arrangements; single individuals comprised 23.9% of households, and 11.6% were single senior citizens (aged 65 or older). The average household size was 2.79 individuals; the average family size was 3.28 members.
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By 1913, the community had a cooperative general store, a canning factory, a telephone system, an electric plant supplying electricity to both public and private buildings, a weekly paper, and regular boat freight and passenger service to Tampa. With the onset of
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three years of preparatory classes, after which students could attend the college, taking classes in art, drama, language, literature, music, shorthand, social sciences, and speech. At the peak of the college's prosperity it had 160 students..
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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 sawmill, a
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Ruskin is the seat of the South Hillsborough County Government Center and has a branch of the Hillsborough County Public Library System. In 2009, the Dickman family donated the land where the new Ruskin Campus of
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allowed to own or lease land in the community. Albert Dickman's house, finished in 1910, on the banks of the Little Manatee River, is one of the few structures left standing from the founding of Ruskin.
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Trooper Kenneth E. Flynt Hwy. Highway 41 in Hillsborough County from Big Bend Rd (CR 672) to Little Manatee River designated by the Florida Senate in Memory of Trooper Flynt killed in the line of duty.
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THE BIG DRAW-Ruskin celebrated the vision of Ruskin who believed in drawing as a tool for understanding and knowledge and promoted the importance of the arts in education and community life.
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Because of its agricultural roots, the town weathered the Depression. The soil of Ruskin farms is especially adapted to growing tomatoes. There is a large area of muck land underlaid with
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located in Ruskin by the Little Manatee River, is perhaps the world's largest ice-age fossil deposit, yielding tens of thousands of bones and several hundred species of Ice Age mammals.
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announced, in 2013, that Amazon would create 3,000 new jobs in Florida. At more than one million square feet, the Amazon warehouse is nearly ten times the size of the average
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The Phoenix is the Ruskin community radio station, WPHX 101.9 FM, transmitting from the Firehouse Cultural Center in Ruskin, which began broadcasting on August 17, 2015.
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for a household in the community was $ 28,228, and the median income for a family was $ 32,404. Males had a median income of $ 25,787 versus $ 20,817 for females. The
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was only a 9-foot-wide (2.7 m) shell road paid for by a $ 30,000 local bond issue (equivalent to $ 394,000 in 2023). Because of the growing importance of
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in Ruskin: the SouthShore Regional Library and the Ruskin Library. Residents may use any library in the system. Library cards are free to residents.
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There were 2,963 households, 29.8% of which had children under the age of 18 present, 53.6% were married couples living together, 10.5% had a female
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Cridlin, Jay. "The bone collector:Ruskin paleontologist Frank Garcia's passion has netted about 30 discoveries of unknown prehistoric species."
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of crops without loss of fertilizer, as the marl prevents the fertilizer from washing too deep into the soil. Ruskin is favored with numerous
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until 2011 when it merged with the Apollo Beach Chamber to become the South Shore Chamber of Commerce and moved from Ruskin to Apollo Beach.
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century turned most of the tomato and orange plantations into new housing development, bringing thousands of new inhabitants to the area.
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for the Ruskin facility. In 2016, Amazon announced it would add an on-site training center for employees to enroll in college courses.
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outlines, programs, celebrations and mutual support to bring a better quality of life to people of rural south Hillsborough County.
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is now a four-lane road connecting Ruskin to Tampa, as does Interstate 75, which has an exit at Ruskin. It had a very active
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weather radar site featuring dual polarization doppler radar and aviation terminal forecasts are also done at this office.
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minister. With this foundation, it is not surprising that even with the destruction of the college the colony survived.
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SouthShore campus is located in Ruskin. It is LEED-certified Gold. It includes the Lennard Collegiate Academy.
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In 1963, Evan Mixon purchased a weekly shopper and began a Ruskin family business that grew to include
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for the community was $ 12,943. About 10.6% of families and 17.1% of the population were below the
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Kim Wilmath, At Boat Ramp, Watery Wonder." St. Petersburg Times, Friday, October 15, 2010.
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tomatoes a year, and one of the world's largest tomato-packing houses operated in nearby
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companies operated in Ruskin in 1935 despite the Depression and a drop to 600 residents:
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There are several locations in and near Ruskin some of which have been included in the
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The area is a part of unincorporated Hillsborough County. It is administered by the
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In 2014, the J. Vince Thompson Elementary School opened in Ruskin. It is the first
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expedition in 1539. The community was founded August 7, 1908, on the shores of the
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Creating art for the community: SCCC students partner with artist Michael Parker.
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Ruskin is located in south-central Hillsborough County, on the north side of the
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At present, Ruskin continues to grow with new commerce and housing developments.
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prosecuting attorney and professor, and former president of Ruskin College in
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The town and college were named after the English writer and social reformist
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passes through the center of town, leading north 10 miles (16 km) to
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http://www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/statistics/hwydata/desroads.pdf
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runs along the eastern edge of Ruskin, with access from Exit 240 (
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Designated Roads of Florida. Florida Dept. of Transportation.
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Recognizing the needs of Latino families, especially those of
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Census-designated places in Hillsborough County, Florida
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is 24 miles (39 km) to the north via I-75 and the
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Michael Van Sickler and Bill Varian (June 14, 2013).
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includes Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor. There is an
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provides childcare services, community outreach, and
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Ruskin, FL
Census-designated place

Location in Hillsborough County and the state of Florida
Hillsborough County
Florida
27°42′53″N 82°26′1″W / 27.71472°N 82.43361°W / 27.71472; -82.43361
Country
State
Florida
County
Hillsborough
Named for
John Ruskin
Time zone
UTC-5
Eastern (EST)
DST
UTC-4
ZIP Codes
Area code
813
FIPS code
GNIS
census-designated place
Hillsborough County, Florida
Uzita
Hernando de Soto
Little Manatee River
Ruskin College

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