Healesville

Healesville, town, Victoria, Australia. It is situated in the Dandenong Ranges and on the Maroondah Highway northeast of Melbourne. Founded (1860) on the fertile flats of the Acheron River, a tributary of the Yarra, it was named after Sir Richard Heales, then premier of Victoria. A rail terminus, it is the centre of a district of fruit cultivation, poultry raising, and dairying that also has some of the state’s finest stands of timber. Healesville is...