Koo Wee Rup Swamp History

This blog is about the history of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp and surrounding areas, including Garfield, and Western Port as well as some of my family history. It's my own original research and writing and if you live in the area you may have read some of the stories before in the Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society newsletter or the Koo Wee Rup township newsletter, The Blackfish, or the Garfield township newsletter, The Spectator. Heather Arnold.

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Friday, January 18, 2019

What happened in Koo Wee Rup in 1910

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The first article I wrote for the Garfield Spectator in 2010, was a look back at what happened in the town 100 years previously (read it, h...

Thursday, January 17, 2019

What happened in Garfield in 1910

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I wrote this in 2010 for the Garfield Spectator , I have done one for every year and they are still an interesting snap shot of the town, 10...

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Across the Koo Wee Rup Swamp in 1910 by bicycle

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This article was published in The Australasian on April 30, 1910. The author took a trip, by bicycle, across the Koo Wee Rup Swamp - 90 m...

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Heather: I am a local history enthusiast, the President of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society and the Secretary of the South Eastern Historical Association. I was the Local History Librarian at Casey Cardinia Libraries from 2005 until 2021.

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