Wheelers Hill is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Monash local government area. Wheelers Hill recorded a population of 20,652 at the .

The Wheelers Hill Hotel was a post office and stopping point for farmers before a 6 to 8-hour drive to the city by horse to sell their goods. The Wheelers Mansion was destroyed by a fire in the late 1920s. The house was located somewhere to the south of the Wheelers Hill Library. The Post Office opened on 1 January 1869 and was called Mulgrave until 1888.

Sport

  • Mulgrave Football Club at Mulgrave Reserve
  • Eastern Devils Women's Football Club at Mulgrave Reserve

Education

Secondary Schools

  • Wheelers Hill Secondary College
  • Brentwood Secondary College

Primary Schools

  • Caulfield Grammar School

The Museum of Australian Photography and the Wheelers Hill branch of the Monash Public Library Service co-located in a building at the corner of Jells Road and Ferntree Gully Road, Wheelers Hill. The architect of the original 1990 Gallery was Harry Seidler. Even though Seidler had designed a further whole cultural precinct beyond the gallery,

See also

  • City of Waverley – Wheelers Hill was previously within this former local government area.

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