Healesville is a town in Victoria, Australia, 64 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district, located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges local government area.

[citation needed] Traffic to the more distant Gippsland and Yarra Valley goldfields in the 1860s resulted in a settlement forming on the Watts River[2] and its survey as a town in 1864.

[citation needed] The northern end of the trail is at Cooktown, Queensland, a town 328 kilometres (204 mi) north of Cairns.

[17] The association published "Healesville, The World-famed Tourist Resort",[18] listing over 40 beauty spots and 20 hotels and guest houses.

Their departure and the onset of the 1930s depression exposed Healesville's restricted range of industries.

Notwithstanding the depression, the 1930s saw increased motor tourism (partly bypassing Healesville) and decreased railway patronage.

[citation needed] Tourism was still active but a local newspaper commented that Healesville would be "heaps better off calling itself the good-time town instead of the world-famed-tourist-resort—that's got whiskers on it".

[19][20][21][22] The Memo, a centre for community arts and cultural activities, was built in 1924 as a soldier's memorial hall.