Brown Hill

Brown Hill is a residential and rural/residential suburb with its post office about 3 km north-east of central Ballarat. It was originally a gold-mining hamlet on the Yarrowee River.

The place name originated as Brownbill's Diggings, named after an early gold discoverer, William Brownbill.

A school, named Eureka National, opened at the Diggings in 1853 on the site of a future Methodist church. Four years later the 'Brown's Hill' post office opened and the school's name changed about then, or when it became a Common School in 1863.