Rutersville, Texas

Unincorporated community in Texas, US

Rutersville is an unincorporated community in central Fayette County, Texas, United States. Rutersville College was located in the community during the mid-19th century, with Rutersville developing alongside the school. Both were named for Methodist missionary Martin Ruter, who had been instrumental in the college's founding before his death.^[1]

Robert and Mary Munger invented the Munger system of cotton ginning in the late 1870s. At the time, they were operating Robert's father's cotton gin in Rutersville.^[2]

References

^ Custer, Judson S. "Rutersville College". www.tshaonline.org. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved June 10, 2022.
^ Mann, Sally (2016). Hold still : a memoir with photographs. Little, Brown and Company. pp. 314–319. ISBN 978-0-316-24775-7.