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Note: Oliver Osborn along with his father-in-law Jonathan Crane founded the Coal Creek Community and Church of God in Fountain County, Indiana circa 1824. This was a semi-religious organization formed by followers of George Rapp and who wished to establish a community similar to that then in operation at Harmony, IN. About 1200 acres of land were entered near Stone Bluff. Improvements were made, a mill erected, orchards planted, land cleared and the enterprise carried on in a co-operative manner, the labor and profits being shared by all the members. The shares of the other members were acquired later on by Jonathan Crane and Oliver Osborn, the communistic experiment having lasted about ten years. �2
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