Ruthsburg is an unincorporated community in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, United States. Ruthsburg made national headlines in 2009, when the proposed creation of a U.S. State Department training center spurred unexpected controversy between those who believed it would have devastated neighboring Tuckahoe State Park, The Chesapeake Bay, wildlife, agriculture, communities, and the region as a whole and those who believed it would lead to economic benefits for local businesses, including but not limited to, local firms involved in the construction of the facility, 500 new jobs forecasted to be brought by the facility, as well as additional new people brought to the area as transfers who would then be participants in the local economy.