Claim: The minutes and financial records of the Geelong Historical Society, a society responsible for historic local government of Geelong, is preserved at the Geelong Heritage Centre (described as the largest regional archive in the state of Victoria).
Evidence: The minutes and financial records of the society have been preserved at the Geelong Heritage Centre, suggesting the society's origin may date back to 1920. The Geelong Historical Society was instrumental in the establishment of the Geelong Historical Records Centre as an approved place of deposit for historic local government records, through a partnership with the Geelong local government and Public Record Office Victoria in 1979. It is described as ...the largest regional archive in Victoria. The Geelong Library and Heritage Centre is a regional library, archive and resource facility in the city of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.