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    West Union (Busro) is an abandoned Shaker community in Busseron Township, northwestern Knox County, Indiana, about fifteen miles (24 km) north of Vincennes...
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  • West Union may refer to several places in the United States: West Union, Illinois West Union, Indiana, Parke County West Union (Busro), Indiana, an abandoned...
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    described the effects of the earthquake on the Shaker settlement at West Union (Busro), Indiana, where the earthquakes contributed to the temporary abandonment...
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    Sugar cream pie (category Symbols of Indiana)
    abandon their community of West Union (Busro) (near modern-day Vincennes, Indiana) in 1827, their only presence in Indiana ever (1810–1827), it is unlikely...
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    founded, comprising some sixty families, along with a failed commune in Indiana. Many smaller, short-lived communities were established over the course...
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  • Issachar Bates (category People from Busseron Township, Indiana)
    locals who objected to the Shakers establishing a community at West Union (Busro), Indiana. Bates eventually walked several thousand miles across Kentucky...
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    Shaker villages organized at South Union, Kentucky, and Busro, Indiana. The latter village becomes known as West Union. James Shepherd returns to Watervliet...
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    located at West Union (called Busro because it was on Busseron Creek) on the Wabash River a few miles north of Vincennes in Knox County, Indiana.: 62–54 ...
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