Plum Creek heads five miles southeast of Hamilton at Blue Ridge on land originally owned by Henry Carter. Mr. Carter sold his farm to my great-grandparents, Thomas Edwin Stribling and Martha Mariah "Mattie" Kirkland Stribling in 1907. Plum Creek flows in a southeasterly direction roughly parallel to the Cowhouse Creek exiting Hamilton County en route to Levita (earlier known as Simpsonville.)

OHIO was originally located on Plum Creek where William Thatcher Baker, purchased 320 acres of land ten miles south of Hamilton from A. E. Fort for $640. Mr Baker built a store and applied for a post office. When William T. Baker was appointed postmaster on 4 May, 1882, he named the post office Ohio (in honor of his native state). His salary as postmaster was $4.00 per year. Mail delivery was once a week to Mr. Baker’s store. Mail service improved to twice a week in 1883. William T. Baker died on 12 August, 1884, and Ramer Gooch purchased Baker’s store and moved the store and the post office of Ohio from the Plum Creek location three miles south to the village which had sprung up around James A. Carter’s mill on the Cowhouse and henceforth, the village at Carter’s Mill became known as Ohio.

"Plum Creek heads north (sic--it is south) of Blue Ridge on the Henry Carter farm, now owned by the Striblings. It runs through the northeast corner of the old Moore Bros. sheep ranch. It was near here that W. T. Baker opened a country store and secured a post office that he named Ohio for his native state. This creek runs through the ranches now owned by Guss Feldman and Bill Hampton and by old Simpsonville now called Levita. Here in the seventies (1870's) a man by the name of Simpson had a flour mill in which he would make three grades of flour that was sold by the merchants at Gatesville, Hamilton, and Jonesboro."--Doris LaRue Stapleton and Capt. C. E. Horton.