Healesville, Victoria

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Healesville
Victoria

Location of Healesville in Victoria (red)
Population: 6567 (2006)[1]
Established: 1864
Postcode: 3777
Elevation: 199 m (653 ft)
Location:
LGA: Shire of Yarra Ranges
State District: Seymour
Federal Division: McEwen
Mean Max Temp Mean Min Temp Annual Rainfall
19.2 °C
67 °F		 8 °C
46 °F		 1,020.1 mm
40.2 in
Localities around Healesville:
Chum Creek Toolangi Narbethong
Dixons Creek Healesville McMahons Creek
Coldstream Badger Creek Don Valley

Healesville is a town located to the northeast of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is 60 km by road from central Melbourne and about 22 km north-east of Lilydale, considered to be the boundary of greater Melbourne. It is situated on the Watts river, a tributary of the Yarra River. It is in the local government area of the Shire of Yarra Ranges.

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History

The creation of a railway to the more distant Gippsland and Yarra Valley goldfields in the 1860s resulted in a settlement forming on the Watts river and its survey as a town in 1864. It was named after Richard Heales, the Premier of Victoria from 1860-1861. The Post Office opened on 1 May 1865.[2]

The Town today

Healesville is well known for the Healesville Sanctuary - a nature park with hundreds of native Australian animals displayed in a semi-open natural setting and an active platypus breeding program.

Schools in Healesville include the 125 year-old Healesville Primary School, St Bridgids Catholic primary school, the Healesville High School, and Worawa College, an Aboriginal school whose former students include noted AFL player David Wirrpanda. Much of what is now Healesville lies on the ancestral land of the Wurundjeri people, and aboriginal missions have been there in the past.

Industries in and around Healesville include sawmilling, horticulture, tourism and more recently viticulture.

Swinburne TAFE has a campus in Healesville.

The Salvation Army has been part of the community since the late 1800's, with a continued and renewed presence in town.[3].

The town has an Australian Rules football team (The Bloods) competing in the Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League[4].

Notable people

Noted Aboriginal artist and Wurundjeri elder William Barak spent much of his life at Coranderrk Station, near Healesville. Wurundjeri elder Joy Murphy Wandin lives in Healsville.[5]

Gallery

Healesville Visitor Centre

Healesville Railway Station

Healesville Hotel

Grand Hotel

RACV Club

Mount Riddell

Mount Saint Leonard

Healesville by night, taken from Mount Saint Leonard

Healesville Main Street at night

References

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Healesville (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/LocationSearch?collection=Census&period=2006&areacode=SSC25751&producttype=QuickStats&breadcrumb=PL&action=401. Retrieved on 2007-10-01. 
  2. ^ Premier Postal History, Post Office List, https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country=, retrieved on 11 April 2008 
  3. ^ The Salvation Army, The Salvation Army Healesville, http://www.salvationarmy.org.au/healesville, retrieved on 16 September 2008 
  4. ^ Full Points Footy, Healesville, http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/Healesville.htm, retrieved on 25 July 2008 
  5. ^ Martin Flanagan, Tireless ambassador bids you welcome, The Age, January 25 2003. Accessed October 31, 2008

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