Rutledge, Florida

[1] The community was established for formerly enslaved persons during Reconstruction by the Freedmen's Bureau.

The First Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church and the Greater Liberty Hill United Methodist Church, both founded in the 19th century, continue to serve the community.

The center of the community was located about five miles west of Gainesville, Florida in the 19th century.

It was on the planned route of the Gainesville, Tallahassee and Western Railroad, which was never built.

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