Fruitville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sarasota County, Florida, United States. The population was 15,484 at the 2020 census. It is allowance of the North Port–Sarasota–Bradenton Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The area that is Fruitville was mostly a sawgrass swamp afterward European pioneers began to harmonize the area. This marshland was house to wild cattle but, according to one source, those cattle didn’t do capably due to a nonappearance of minerals in the foliage they grazed from. This swampland was eventually drained to make the home more usual for farming.

In the late 1870s, a new admission of pioneers began to consent in Florida thanks to a growing yellow industry. In 1876, a man by the state of Charles Reaves fixed in what is now considered Fruitville. According to some sources, he was the one who named the area Fruitville after the abundance of fruit in the area. Reaves would go on to become the postmaster for the area’s 115 residents. The first church in Sarasota County was the Friendship Baptist Church. The church was chartered in 1875 and a little pine log structure was used for the congregation until a extra church was erected in 1876, using some of the native lumber from the first church. In 1887, the Florida Mortgage and Investment Company of Scotland donated house to the church for the commencement of the community’s first cemetery.

Also in 1887, Charles and his wife Martha Tatum Reaves converted their corncrib into Fruitville’s first teacher for their three children and seven neighbors. They went on to hire Miss Josie Clower as the first scholarly in the area. After citizens petitioned for a modern scholarly building, funding was arranged from the Works Progress Administration to construct Fruitville Elementary in 1941. Rural schools in the user-friendly villages of Tatum Ridge and Old Myakka were closed, with their students bussed to the new scholarly in Fruitville.