Healesville

Healesville
Grand Hotel in Healesville
State :  Australia State : Victoria Founded : 1864
Coordinates : 37 ° 39 ′  S , 145 ° 31 ′  E Coordinates: 37 ° 39 ′  S , 145 ° 31 ′  E Height : 199  m Area : 18.9  km²
Residents : 8,480 (2016) Population density : 449 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10) Postal code : 3777 LGA : Yarra Ranges Shire
Healesville

Healesville is a city in the Australian state of Victoria , 52 km northeast of Melbourne . It belongs to the Yarra Ranges Shire Local Government Area . In the 2016 census, there were 8,480 inhabitants.

Healesville is located on the Watts River , a tributary of the Yarra River .

history

The construction of a railway line to the more distant gold fields in Gippsland and the Yarra Valley in the 1860s leads to the construction of a settlement on the Watts River and its elevation to the city in 1864. It was named after Richard Heales , Prime Minister of Victoria in 1860 and 1861, named. A post office was opened in the new town on May 1, 1865. It became the starting point for the Woods Point gold field, and the Yarra Track , a road to the new gold fields, was built in the 1870s .

Healesville today

Healesville is known for its Nature Park and Zoo Healesville Sanctuary is well known, where hundreds of native animals can be seen in a semi-open, natural reserve and a breeding program for platypuses are.

The Yarra Valley Tourist Railway runs from Healesville Station every Sunday and most public holidays, including Wed-Sun during school holidays.

Schools include the 125-year-old Healesville Primary School , St. Brigid's Catholic Elementary School , Healesville High School, and Worawa College , a school for Aborigines that was attended by well-known Australian football star David Wirrpanda . Most of what is now Healesville is on the former tribal land of the Wurundjeri . The Coranderrk mission station, which opened in 1863, is located immediately south of the city center.

There are sawmills , horticulture , tourism and, more recently, viticulture in and around Healesville .

The Swinburne TAFE has a campus in Healesville.

The Salvation Army has been in the city since the late 19th century.

The city has a football team, The Bloods , who play in the Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League .

Healesville also has a tennis club , the Healesville Tennis Club , which plays in the junior and senior competitions in the Eastern Region .

Healesville also owns 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 holds regular competitions.

Golfers play on the RACV Country Club course on Yarra Glen Road.

Known residents

• Well known Aboriginal artist and elder of the Wurundjeri tribe, William Barak spent most of his life at Coranderrk Station near Healesville. Tribal Elder Joe Murphy Wandin lives in Healesville.
• Andrew Moore, football player for Port Adelaide Football Club .
• Kelvin W. Moore, football player for Richmond Football Club
• James Wandin (1933-2006), Ngurungaeta the Wurundjeri and football player at St. Kilda Football Club
• David Wirrpanda, West Coast Eagles football player
• Lex Lasry, Supreme Court Justice
• Luke Dennehy, journalist.

tourism

Noble country estates, hotels and guest houses have been built since the late 1890s.

The Tourist and Progrss Association was founded before 1914 .

In the 1920s, this working group published the Healesville, The World-famed Tourist Resort guide , which lists over 40 attractions and 20 hotels and guest houses. The construction of the Maroondah Dam in 1927, which replaced the previous weir, brought several hundred workers to Healesville. When they left the city, this, together with the onset of the global economic crisis , seriously damaged the city's economy. Together, the timber industry and tourism were not strong enough to guarantee the steady growth of Healesville. Despite the recession, automobile tourism (which in part drove past Healesville!) And rail tourism declined in the 1930s. At Easter 1934 only 10% of the guests came by train. Tourism remained important, but a local newspaper commented that the city would do better to present itself as a good place to live rather than a world-famous tourist destination.

Web links

Commons : Healesville  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Healesville ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
2. ^ Post Office List . Premier Postal History
3. ^ Yarra Valley Railway Fares and Timetables . Yarra Valley Railway ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ The Salvation Army Healesville . The Salvation Army
5. ↑ Healesville . Full Points Footy ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ Healesville Amateur Racing . Country Racing Victoria
7. ↑ Healesville . Greyhound Racing Victoria ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ RACV Country Club . Golf Select
9. ↑ Tireless Ambassador Bids you Welcome . The Age (January 25, 2003)