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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Sunday, April 30, 2023

RAAF plane crash at Garfield, January 17 1958

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This report of the crash of an RAAF aeroplane at Garfield is from the The Age , Saturday January 18, 1958 p. 3. Air Cadets unhurt in R.A....

Friday, February 28, 2020

Railway accident at Koo Wee Rup, Christmas Eve, 1928

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The Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society received these photographs from Don Cuff. Don is the son of Gordon and Martha Jean (nee Preston) Cu...

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

100 years ago this week - an account of two acccidents near Pakenham

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An account of two dray accidents appeared in the South Bourke and Mornington Journal, 100 years ago this week, in May 1913. South ...

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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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