Fruitville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sarasota County, Florida, United States.

[6] In the late 1870s, a new wave of pioneers began to settle in Florida thanks to a growing orange industry.

[9] In 1887, the Florida Mortgage and Investment Company of Scotland donated land to the church for the establishment of the community's first cemetery.

[10] Also in 1887, Charles and his wife Martha Tatum Reaves converted their corncrib into Fruitville's first school for their three children and seven neighbors.

The airfield was an auxiliary landing station for the U.S. Army Air Service and housed, at the least, several Curtiss JN "Jenny" planes.

[15] Throughout the 1960s and 70s, there was a migrant camp called Sababo in Fruitville that supplied much of the labor force for area's farm industry.

[18] In November 1990, Litchfield's Cinema 10 opened in the Sarasota Commons, the community's first modern movie theater.

Some of the films shown for its pre-opening weekend were Pretty Woman and Back to the Future III.

80.9% of the population was white (non-Hispanic), 2.1% was black or African American, 2.4% was Asian, and 12.5% was Hispanic or Latino.