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	By 1865, Hartwell boasted its own church, school two hotels, post office, wine hall and general store. Despite its small population of 175 at this time,<ref name="OldHartwellBook" /> it was able to support this wide variety of services on account of through traffic.		By 1865, Hartwell boasted its own church, school two hotels, post office, wine hall and general store. Despite its small population of 175 at this time,<ref name="OldHartwellBook" /> it was able to support this wide variety of services on account of through traffic.

			===1870s - 1900s===
			Hartwell remained an area primarily made up of agricultural production. Despite the introduction of the [[wikipedia:Phylloxera\|phylloxera pest]] that destroyed almost all of the vineyards in Boroondara, dairy, cattle and other farming activities continued well into the 1920s.<ref name="OldHartwellBook" />

			The town saw a period of rapid growth during the economic boom driven by land speculation during the 1880s. Although the school had been closed and the church dismantled, significant economic and development activity ensued following the extension of the railway from [[Hawthorn Railway Station\|Hawthorn]] to [[wikipedia:Lilydale, Victoria\|Lilydale]] in 1882. Hartwell's population increased fourfold between 1880 and 1890.<ref name="OldHartwellBook" /> A daily coach service operated from [[Camberwell]] to Hartwell, but this was slow and presented the only transport connection to the rest of Boroondara, so the opening of a new railway station at Camberwell made Hartwell much more easily accessible.<ref name="OldHartwellBook" /> The opening of the highly-speculative [[Outer Circle Railway]] dramatically increased property values along its route through Hartwell and Burwood, but the opening of [[Burwood Railway Station\|Hartwell Railway Station]] (present-day Burwood Station) on 30 May 1890 heralded the beginning of the end of these boom times.<ref name="OldHartwellBook" />

			By 1892, the depression had well and truly hit. Land sales did not recover in Hartwell until well after the First World War.<ref name="OldHartwellBook" />

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'''Hartwell''' is a locality in central [[Boroondara]]. It is not a gazetted suburb in its own right and is mostly located in [[Camberwell]] with some areas falling within the boundaries of [[Burwood]]. Hartwell is centred on its shopping precinct along Toorak Road and contains several areas of heritage buildings.

==History==
===Early European settlement===
'Hartwell' was first used as a term to describe the area in a land sales advertisement published in May 1853. The name has unknown provenance and has no clearly defined geographic area. Several documents incorrectly cite that a 'Hartwell House' was constructed in 1853 from which the precinct obtained its name. However, there is no historical evidence to support this claim. The name of this building did not come into use until the 1870s at the earliest.<ref name="OldHartwellBook">Wehner, Volkhard. ''Old Hartwell - the life and times of the village that lost its name''. 2012: Glen Iris.</ref>

[[John Hill|John]] and Naomi Hill were among the first European settlers in the area. Following the 1853 land sales, other settlers followed suit, including [[George Downing]] and [[Simon Staughton]]. This precipitated the first wave of movement to the area, which was not as quick to be developed as some other parts of Boroondara such as Camberwell or Hawthorn. Makeshift houses were built and more land clearing was cleared to make way for cattle and sheep farms.<ref name="OldHartwellBook" />

The first concentrated settlement formed near where present-day Eddy Street and Smith Road meet Camberwell Road. A general store, school and post office opened in this location in the mid-1850s. This was followed by the opening of the [[Tyrone Hotel]] at the corner of present-day [[Toorak Road|Toorak]] and [[Camberwell Road|Camberwell]] Roads, and the conversion of [[James Irwin]]'s house into the [[Irwin Hotel]] at the corner of Wattle Valley Road and Toorak Road. Hartwell soon became a relatively important stopping point along what was to become one of the main roads leading from Melbourne to Gippsland and the newly-discovered goldfields.<ref name="OldHartwellBook" />

By 1865, Hartwell boasted its own church, school two hotels, post office, wine hall and general store. Despite its small population of 175 at this time,<ref name="OldHartwellBook" /> it was able to support this wide variety of services on account of through traffic.

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