Rutersville, Texas
Unincorporated community in Texas, US
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Rutersville is an unincorporated community in central Fayette County, Texas, United States.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3]
