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Ruskin is an unincorporated census-designated place in Hillsborough County, not an incorporated city, located on the Little Manatee River along the southeastern shore of Tampa Bay.

Ruskin was founded on August 7, 1908, the day Adaline Miller established a post office there, after she and her husband Dr. George McAnelly Miller moved to the area to build a new community.

The community was named after John Ruskin, the English writer and social reformer whose ideas about the dignity of labor inspired the founders.

In 1910 the Ruskin Commongood Society platted Ruskin as a cooperative intentional community, and it was the fifth and last town named Ruskin founded on utopian communal principles in the United States - and the only one that remains.

The Millers founded Ruskin College in 1910, where students could work their way through school at cooperative businesses, but the college's main buildings burned and it closed in 1919.

Ruskin became famous for agriculture and was nicknamed 'America's Salad Bowl', because its muck soil over a marl base proved ideal for tomatoes, and the community launched the annual Ruskin Tomato Festival in 1935.

Ruskin had 28,620 residents at the 2020 Census, up from 17,208 in 2010, and has about 10,200 households.

Hillsborough Community College's SouthShore campus is located in Ruskin, continuing the community's founding connection to education.

The Millers' own house survived the college fire, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and today houses the Ruskin Woman's Club.