The first settler was Charles Browning Hall who set out in search of a suitable grazing run when he found the cattle market at Port Phillip overstocked in 1841.
Establishing a station just east of the Grampians in a spot known as "Mokepilli" to the indigenous inhabitants (probably the Djab wurrung).
Halls Gap was originally located at where the now Lake Bellfield Reservoir is now located.

By following aboriginal tracks he came upon the gap which now bears his name.

Hall's Gap Post Office opened on 3 February 1893, closed in 1896, and reopened in 1902.
The first settler was Charles Browning Hall who set out in search of a suitable grazing run when he found the cattle market at Port Phillip overstocked in 1841. Establishing a station just east of the Grampians in a spot known as "Mokepilli" to the indigenous inhabitants (probably the Djab wurrung). Halls Gap was originally located at where the now Lake Bellfield Reservoir is now located.
By following aboriginal tracks he came upon the gap which now bears his name.
Hall's Gap Post Office opened on 3 February 1893, closed in 1896, and reopened in 1902.
Halls Gap