(Waterworks Road between Oil Springs Line and Bickford Line)

The post office at Lot 3, Con. 2 Moore, named Cromar after a place in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, operated from 1900 to 1912.   This hamlet was likely known locally more as Plum Creek, however, as the school and church bore that name.   The creek was so named for the many plum trees growing on its banks.  Plum Creek School (School Section #17 Moore) opened at Lot 4, Con. 2 in 1878, and in 1891 became a union school with S.S. #22 Sombra.  This school building was the only one in Moore Township which served as both a school and a church, housing Plum Creek Presbyterian Church from 1894 to 1925 and its successor congregation, Plum Creek United Church, from 1925 to 1960.  The church dissolved in 1960 and the school closed in 1963 when central schools opened in Moore. 

Sources:

Carter, Floreen Ellen.  Place Names of Ontario.  Vols. 1 & 2.  London, Ont.:  Phelps Publishing Company, 1984, second printing, 1985.  ISBN 0-920298-39-7

Japp, Mrs. Evan.  Plum Creek School 1878 – 1963 Reflections and Memories.  [s.l.]:  [s.n.], (1963).