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On this day in 1808 the Hoosier Shaker community played host to Shakers from Kentucky. The Shakers' Indiana settlement, founded in 1805, was located on Busseron Creek in northern Knox County. The Shakers practiced celibacy and communal living and were expert craftsmen. Their Hoosier community numbered 200 members at one time before the Shakers finally left Indiana in 1827.