Croydon is a area in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia found about 28 kilometres east of Melbourne's CBD. Croydon has a populace of nearly 27,000 people. The property that became Croydon was initially put to use back in the 1840’s by colonists for grazing of farm animals. The main road in the region was named Sawmill road due to a sawmill nearby. Later on it had been changed to Oxford Road and in the 1900’s that it was modified to what it is known at this time as Mt Dandenong Road. The location itself was initially called White Flats because the area was to a great extent filled by a coarse silvery-white grass. The name of Croydon was presented to it through the Lacey family that originated from Essx, England who called it after the Croydon in England which was Mrs. Lacey's home town. Close to the present Main St shopping precinct is a road named after the Lacey family.
Packages of land in the region were first surveyed in 1868 and the region was first formally habituated with all the region emphasizing the farming of sheep, dairy and beef. There were also some sawmills established. Next, there were orchards that included cherries, apples, peaches, pears in addition to plums that thrived. Some of the present street names around Croydon today reflect that earlier uses of the area.. In 1874 Cobb & Co began a service using horses and carts to the region. A train track to the place was opened up on 1 December 1882 and the train station was called Warrandyte that was not actually in Warrandyte which was deceiving as that region was a horse and coach trip 10km away. On 1 August 1884 it had been renamed to be known as the Croydon train stop. From the mid-1880s Mr James Hewish developed his homestead and started a number of other small business ventures which included a general store, news agency, butchers shop and a hotel. He also founded several orchard trees. The Croydon Post Office was opened on 1 December 1883. The close by Nelson's Hill Post Office opened up in 1902 and was later renamed Burnt Bridge in 1979. In Mt Dandenong Road in 1908 Croydon Hall had been constructed. It was eventually announced and gazetted to be a town in 1912.
In 1920 a Monday marketplace was began in Croydon that included livestock, chickens, birds along with other small animals. It was really a famous landmark in the area and a favorite assembly place for locals from nearby areas before the site was redeveloped in the 1980s. It was eventually shut down in 2012. For administrative, Croydon was originally a part of what was then the Shire of Lillydale, however in 1957 a request was published by representatives for Croydon to go out of the Shire of Lillydale and become its own governing body. The City and Shire of Croydon was incorporated in May 1961 and was proclaimed as a City in 1971. Later on, it was merged, together with the City of Ringwood to become the City of Maroondah in 1994. At this time, the Main Street of Croydon is a successful community hub with nearly 200 traders.