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White Hills is a suburb of the city of
Bendigo Bendigo ( ) is an Australian city in north-central Victoria. The city is located in the Bendigo Valley near the geographical centre of the state and approximately north-west of Melbourne, the state capital. As of 2022, Bendigo has a popula ...
in central
Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India * Victoria (state), a state of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a provincial capital * Victoria, Seychelles, the capi ...
,
Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...
. It is located four kilometres immediately north-east of the city centre between North Bendigo and
East Bendigo East Bendigo is a suburb of the regional city of Bendigo Bendigo ( ) is an Australian city in north-central Victoria. The city is located in the Bendigo Valley near the geographical centre of the state and approximately north-west of Mel ...
. "The White Hills" were named for the colour of the clay exposed by gold miners at that part of the Bendigo diggings in the 1850s. The
Bendigo Creek Bendigo Creek is a seasonal stream, or Stream, creek, in North Central Victoria, Australia. The Bendigo, city of Bendigo is named for the creek and Bendigo Valley, valley in which it was founded in 1851. Gold was officially discovered on Bendigo C ...
, the site of the area's first gold find, runs through White Hills. At the , White Hills had a population of 3,275.


Facilities

White Hills Post Office opened on 21 August 1857 during the gold rush. The Bendigo Jockey Club, a horse racing club, is based at the Bendigo racecourse in White Hills and the Bendigo Cup is run there in mid-November. White Hills is the home of the White Hills Cricket Club; there is also a public swimming pool. Weeroona College Bendigo, formerly known as White Hills Technical School, is a co-educational secondary college catering for students in years 7 to 10, is located in the suburb. The Bendigo Botanic Gardens, formerly known as the White Hills Botanical Gardens, are located in the area.


Notable people

* Alfred Hampson (1864–1924)
Labor Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labour ...
MLA for
Bendigo East Bendigo East is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It covers an area of covering the part of the city of Bendigo east of the Yungera railway line and surrounding rural areas to the north, ...
and MHR for
Bendigo Bendigo ( ) is an Australian city in north-central Victoria. The city is located in the Bendigo Valley near the geographical centre of the state and approximately north-west of Melbourne, the state capital. As of 2022, Bendigo has a popula ...
was born in White Hills * Thomas Flanagan (1832-1899), who found the first gold in Kalgoorlie in 1893 with his companions
Paddy Hannan Patrick Hannan (baptised 26 April 1840 – 4 November 1925) was a gold prospector whose lucrative discovery on 14 June 1893 set off a major gold rush in the area now known as Kalgoorlie-Boulder in Western Australia. The resulting goldfield ha ...
and Daniel Shea, is buried in the White Hills cemetery * Michael John Flannigan (1862-1901), nephew of Thomas Flanigan (above), after whom King Island's Lake Flannigan is named


References


External links


City of Greater Bendigo

White Hills Botanical Gardens

White Hills Public Cemetery


Gallery

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