Creek Bank is an unincorporated rural community in Centre Wellington Township,

Wellington County, Ontario Wellington County is a county located in Southwestern Ontario, Canada and is part of the Greater Golden Horseshoe. The County, made up of two towns and five townships, is predominantly rural in nature. However many of the residents in the so ...

, Canada. The settlement is located on Carroll Creek.

History

The Fisher brothers, Alexander, John, and Michael, were pioneer settlers who arrived in the area in 1841. A post office was established in 1852, and mail was delivered daily to Creek Bank. The post office closed in 1915. The Wesleyan Methodist Church was established in Creek Bank by the 1860s, located on a portion of the Fisher farm. The church was rebuilt in 1882 and renamed Bloomsbury Methodist Church. It operated until 1915, when it was dismantled and moved to Hollen, a town on the

Conestogo River The Conestogo River is a river in Waterloo Region and Wellington County in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. The river was named by Mennonite settlers after the Conestoga River in Pennsylvania. In the 1800s there were several different spellings o ...

, west of Creek Bank. An extant cemetery located near the former church has graves dating to the 1850s. The gravestones were assembled into a cairn in 1837, and a historical marker is located there. Creek Bank had a population of about 75 in 1867, and a blacksmith shop, hotel, and general store were located there. A stage coach passed twice daily between Elora and Hollen. A school, Roman Catholic Separate School #6, was located at Creek Bank around 1870.

References

{{authority control Communities in Wellington County, Ontario