Shaker Creek (Ohio)
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Shaker Creek is a
stream A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ...
in the U.S. state of Ohio. The long stream empties into Dicks Creek. Shaker Creek was so named after the
Shakers The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly known as the Shakers, are a Millenarianism, millenarian Restorationism, restorationist Christianity, Christian sect founded in England and then organized in the Unit ...
who settled near it. The area around Shaker Creek once formed a wetland called Shaker Swamp; the latter was drained and the land reclaimed.


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Rivers of Butler County, Ohio Rivers of Warren County, Ohio Rivers of Ohio {{Ohio-river-stub