For those of you who wrote to me asking to be notified if I found out where Roodville was
located in Grant County:
I inquired at the Marion Library and one of the staff members there looked in a book that
lists small towns in Indiana with funny names or towns that no longer exist, and this is
what it had to say:
The town of Van Buren was first established in 1843 by George H.D. Rood, who owned a large
chunk of land where the town is now situated. It was first called "Rood's
Corner" and "Rood's Station", etc, until it officially was named Van
Buren around the 1870's.
One of the gentlemen who volunteers at the library was kind enough to point out to me
George Rood's plot of land on the 1860 Grant County plat map.
So we were left with the assumption that people were referring to what is now Van Buren
when they said "Roodville."
Linda Chan