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| | HEIDELBERG, VICTORIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Heidelberg was reached by a track from Melbourne via North Fitzroy, and in 1841 the Heidelberg Road Trust was formed. |
 | | The appealing rural scenery had attracted artists in the 1880s, not least because the absence of public utilities and a railway (until 1888) caused houses to be vacated and available at low rents. |
 | | The population of the Heidelberg municipality (before the severances in the 1960s) was 8,610 (1911), 34,401 (1947, excluding Greensborough), and 60,007 (1961). |
| www.arts.monash.edu.au /ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/heidelberg.html (583 words) |
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