• Free From City Cares, The Story of Healesville’s Guest Houses
    By Bryn Jones The following article was written as the Introduction to Bryn Jones popular book on the guest houses of Healesville “Free From City Cares” (2007). Although no longer in print, the Healesville & District Historical Society hold several copies, and the library also has a copy for reference. Healesville owes its…
  • Postcard Collection
    The following 287 photographs are a PowerPoint presentation kindly donated to the Society by Dalis Law. She particularly requested that we share them on our website for all to enjoy.
  • An Introduction to the History of Healesville
    Healesville is a very historic town with a fine history.  Located in the beautiful valley of the Watts River, surrounded on several sides by the stunning mountains of the Great Dividing Range, Healesville lies on the ancestral land of the Wurundjeri people.   Prior to the founding of Healesville, a settlement at nearby New Chum…
  • The Calling of Mount Riddell
    By Frank Endacott The two different ways the name Riddell may be pronounced puzzle most people. It has become a conversational nuisance and a toponymyological conundrum, or a real proper muck-up. There should be an effort made to find the right and wrong ways of saying the name, and if the case is…