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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Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Butter, Cream and Milk factories

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In 1889, the Victorian Parliament allocated £233,000 to establish creameries, cheese and butter factories in the Colony and to aid other pri...

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Growing up on a dairy farm in the 1940s and 50s.

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Small family dairy farms used to be the predominant farm on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp until the 1970s or so. In the 1920s, for instance, it was ...

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Cora Lynn Cheese Factory

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Cora Lynn Cheese Factory, 1998. Image: Heather Arnold The Cheese Factory at Cora Lynn is a prominent landmark, and as you can see by the ...

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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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