[3] In the summer of 1885/86, Tom Roberts and Frederick McCubbin set up a camp, on a site near Damper Creek (now Gardiners Creek), on the property of David Houston, about a mile south of the Box Hill railway station.

[4] Following the end of World War II, extensive suburbanisation of the area occurred, including the development of a Housing Commission estate.

[16] Wembley Park, on Canterbury Road, is the home of the Box Hill Soccer Club.

Box Hill South is not served directly by rail, however, the terminus of tram route 70 is located on the suburb's western boundary, at Wattle Park.

The depot site is also home to the Nunawading Unit of the Victoria State Emergency Service.

A tissue factory, currently operated by SCA Hygiene Australasia, is located on Ailsa Street, on a 14-hectare (35-acre) site.

[30] The pipe organ was relocated from the Unitarian Church in Melbourne, where it had been originally installed in 1887 by Alfred Fuller and rebuilt by Kilner's Piano Works in 1965.