Wallace, Victoria
| Wallace Victoria | |||||||||||||
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 Wallace Hotel | |||||||||||||
  Wallace | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°33′0″S 144°03′0″E / 37.55000°S 144.05000°ECoordinates: 37°33′0″S 144°03′0″E / 37.55000°S 144.05000°E | ||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 3352 | ||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Shire of Moorabool | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Buninyong | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Ballarat | ||||||||||||
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Wallace is a town in Victoria, Australia in the Shire of Moorabool local government area, 99 kilometres (62 mi) north-west of the state capital, Melbourne.
The township was established in the 1880s. Wallace Post Office opened on 2 October 1885 and closed on 26 February 1993.[1]
Wallace was the birthplace of Edmond Hogan, twice Victorian Premier in the 1920s.[2]
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- ↑ Premier Postal History. "Post Office List". Retrieved 11 April 2008.
- ↑ Jonas, Pam. "'Hogan, Edmond John (Ned) (1883 - 1964)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 21 July 2007.
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