Healesville, Victoria
Healesville is a town in Victoria, Australia, 52 km north-east of Melbourne. It belongs to the Local Government Area Yarra Ranges Shire. In the 2006 census, the population was found to be 6567.
Healesville lies on the Watts River, a tributary of the Yarra River.
History
The installation of a railway line to the distant gold fields in Gippsland and the Yarra Valley in the 1860s, leading to the construction of a settlement on the Watts River and its elevation to the city in 1864. It was and after Richard Heales, the Prime Minister of Victoria in 1860 1861, named. A post office was opened in the new town on May 1, 1865. It became the starting point for the gold field of Woods Point and in the 1870s became the Yarra Track, a road to the new gold fields built.
Healesville today
Healesville is well known for its Nature Park and Zoo Healesville Sanctuary, can be seen in the hundreds of native animals in a semi-open, natural reserve and there is a breeding program for platypuses.
The Yarra Valley Tourist Railway runs from Healesville Station every Sunday and most public holidays, as well as Wed-Sun during the school holidays.
In schools, there is the 125 year old Healesville Primary School, the Catholic elementary school St. Brigid's, the Healesville High School and the Worawa College, a school for Aborigines, who also visited the famous Australian football star David Wirrpanda. Most of the present-day city Healesville lies on the former tribal lands of the Wurundjeri. The Coranderrk mission station, which was opened in 1863 is located immediately south then to the city center.
In and around Healesville there are sawmills, horticulture, tourism and, more recently, growing grapes.
The Swinburne TAFE has a campus in Healesville.
The Salvation Army, there are in the city since the late 19th century.
The city has a football team, The Bloods, playing in the Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League.
In Healesville, there is also a tennis club, the Healesville Tennis Club, which plays in the junior and senior competitions in the Eastern Region.
Healesville also has a horse racing club, Healesville Amateur Racing which organizes about seven competitions a year, including the Healesville Cup in January.
The Healesville Greyhound Racing Club also hold regular competitions from.
Golfers playing on the course at RACV Country Club at the Yarra Glen Road.
Well-known residents
- The well-known Aborigineskünstler and Elder of the Wurundjeri Tribe William Barak spent most of his life at the Coranderrk station at Healesville. The tribal elders Joe Murphy Wandin lives in Healesville.
- Andrew Moore, football player at the Port Adelaide Football Club.
- Kelvin W. Moore, Football Player at Richmond Football Club
- James Wandin (1933-2006), Ngurungaeta Wurundjeri and football player at the St. Kilda Football Club
- David Wirrpanda, football player for the West Coast Eagles
- Lex Lasry, Justice of the Supreme Court
- Luke Dennehy, a journalist.
Tourism
Since the late 1890s, noble mansions, hotels and guest houses were built.
Even before 1914, the Tourist and Progrss Association was founded.
In the 1920s, this working group published the guide Healesville, The World -famed tourist resort, which lists over 40 attractions and 20 hotels and guest houses. The construction of the Maroondah Dam in 1927, which replaced the existing weir, brought several hundred workers after Healesville. As they left the city again, this hurt along with the onset of the Great Depression of the economy of the city very much. Timber industry and tourism were together not strong enough to guarantee a steady growth Healesvilles. Despite the recession, there were in the 1930s, increased automobile tourism (which partially drove past Healesville! ) And declining railway tourism. At Easter 1934 only 10% of visitors came by train. Tourism remained important, but a local newspaper commented that the city would do better to present themselves as a good place to live rather than a world-renowned tourist destination.