Restumping in East Geelong, Geelong

East Geelong: houses, ground and history

Urban East Geelong grew after Geelong High School opened at Garden and Ryrie streets in 1916. By 1924, Myers and McKillop streets were largely built up as far as Meakin Street. Long before that, Limeburners Point in Eastern Park supplied building lime from as early as 1838. Send us a few details and we can connect you with a registered restumper who covers East Geelong.

• Victorian Places says urban East Geelong began after Geelong High School opened at Garden and Ryrie streets in 1916, and the 1924 Sands and McDougall directory showed Myers and McKillop streets substantially built up as far as Meakin Street.

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• The Victorian Heritage Database records 10 Lomond Terrace, East Geelong, as inside heritage overlay HO1643, a precinct it calls the 'Post World War 1 Heritage Area'.

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• Limeburners Point, in East Geelong's Eastern Park, supplied building lime from as early as 1838 and, with deposits on the Mornington Peninsula, was the major source for Melbourne's building trades for several decades until production ceased in the 1880s, Victorian Places says.

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• At the 2021 Census, 85.2% of occupied private dwellings in East Geelong were separate houses.

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East Geelong had 4,012 residents at the 2021 Census (ABS QuickStats).