The City of Knox is a Local Government Area in Victoria (Australia), Australia, located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and parts including Ferntree Gully, Boronia, Sassafrass and Upwey are in the Dandenong Ranges area of Melbourne. It has an area of 113.8 square kilometres (43.9 sq mi) and a population of 146,740 at the 2006 census.
The City of Knox was named after Sir George Hodges Knox (1885-1960), a former soldier and speaker of the Vict...
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The City of Knox is a Local Government Area in Victoria (Australia), Australia, located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and parts including Ferntree Gully, Boronia, Sassafrass and Upwey are in the Dandenong Ranges area of Melbourne. It has an area of 113.8 square kilometres (43.9 sq mi) and a population of 146,740 at the 2006 census.
The City of Knox was named after Sir George Hodges Knox (1885-1960), a former soldier and speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. The City of Knox Crest incorporates his family’s motto ‘Move and Prosper’.
The area which is now Knox was once part of the Scoresby Riding of the Shire of Berwick. On 23 May 1889, the riding was severed to create the Shire of Ferntree Gully, which extended as far east as Olinda and Monbulk in the Dandenong Ranges. Post-World War II development in the area closer to Melbourne led to rapid urbanisation and population growth - over 21,000 residents lived in the Knox area by the 1961 census. A plebiscite to determine...
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