June, 1898 - Secretary of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Shenandoah, Va. when it filed, on the first Sunday in June, 1898, to sever connection with the Tennessee Synod.
July 29, 1900 - Elected superintendent of St. Paul Lutheran Church's newly established Sunday School.
Oct., 1905 - traveled to Philadelphia to purchase equipment for his wooden Shenandoah Milling Company. Originally built as a water-powered grist mill, it only produced 30 barrels per day. The mill burned in 1925.
Remembered also for his building of the place known as "Little Jerusalem", in Shenandoah, where he later resided.
"This imaginative architectural folly was a project of David F. "Fent" Roudabush, one of the Shenandoah area's more colorful figures in the early twentieth century. About 1910, Roudabush began construction of the county's most unusual architectural creation. Named Jerusalem by neighbors, the structure consists of a series of reinforced-concrete arches and aedicules forming a wall along Maryland Avenue. Jerusalem's influences are unidentifiable, perhaps Mayan, Moorish, or early Hollywood movie set. When not engaged in his construction projects, Roudabush operated a profitable nursery and strawberry truck farm on the property."
June, 1898 - Secretary of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Shenandoah, Va. when it filed, on the first Sunday in June, 1898, to sever connection with the Tennessee Synod.
July 29, 1900 - Elected superintendent of St. Paul Lutheran Church's newly established Sunday School.
Oct., 1905 - traveled to Philadelphia to purchase equipment for his wooden Shenandoah Milling Company. Originally built as a water-powered grist mill, it only produced 30 barrels per day. The mill burned in 1925.
Remembered also for his building of the place known as "Little Jerusalem", in Shenandoah, where he later resided.
"This imaginative architectural folly was a project of David F. "Fent" Roudabush, one of the Shenandoah area's more colorful figures in the early twentieth century. About 1910, Roudabush began construction of the county's most unusual architectural creation. Named Jerusalem by neighbors, the structure consists of a series of reinforced-concrete arches and aedicules forming a wall along Maryland Avenue. Jerusalem's influences are unidentifiable, perhaps Mayan, Moorish, or early Hollywood movie set. When not engaged in his construction projects, Roudabush operated a profitable nursery and strawberry truck farm on the property."
Family Members
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George William Roudabush
1854–1916
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John Calvin "Callie" Roudabush
1856–1948
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Fannie J. Roudabush Rogers
1858–1905
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Mary Magdalene "Maggie" Roudabush Coffman
1859–1911
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Major Ashby Roudabush
1861–1916
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Virginia Jackson "Gennie" Roudabush Foltz
1863–1952
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Hiram Eldridge Roudabush
1865–1955
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Robert Trenton Roudabush
1867–1944
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Charles Edward Roudabush
1873–1910
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