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Post Office Hill is names after the post office located there on the goldfields.
  
 
There was a lock-up on Post Office hill in 1851. It was a log structure with a single cell measuring eight feet six inches by five feet.The tree to which prisoners were chained on Post Office Hill is believed to have been on the east corner of Grant and Learmonth Street.<ref>Ballarat Courier, 17 June 1955.</ref>
 
There was a lock-up on Post Office hill in 1851. It was a log structure with a single cell measuring eight feet six inches by five feet.The tree to which prisoners were chained on Post Office Hill is believed to have been on the east corner of Grant and Learmonth Street.<ref>Ballarat Courier, 17 June 1955.</ref>

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Background

Post Office Hill is names after the post office located there on the goldfields.

There was a lock-up on Post Office hill in 1851. It was a log structure with a single cell measuring eight feet six inches by five feet.The tree to which prisoners were chained on Post Office Hill is believed to have been on the east corner of Grant and Learmonth Street.[1]


Location

References

  1. Ballarat Courier, 17 June 1955.