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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Monday, January 23, 2023

Richard Beuhne's Bee Farm at Garfield

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The Leader newspaper of September 3, 1893 had an article on bee keeping in Garfield which also gave some interesting insights into the deve...

Sunday, June 28, 2015

100 years ago this week - Potatoes

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100 years ago this week, The Australasian , in the Country Gleanings column reported on the good potato season on the Swamp. The Aust...

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 ...

Thursday, October 2, 2014

100 years ago this week - Potatoes and Asparagus

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Here's the Crop report from 100 years ago. Bunyip Free Press October 1, 1914 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12962960...

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

100 years ago this week - Royal Melbourne Show

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Local farmers were preparing their exhibits for the Royal Melbourne Show - 100 years ago this week - as this article from the Bunyip Free P...

Sunday, March 3, 2013

100 years ago this week - Food production

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One hundred years ago, this week in March 1913, this appeared in the West Gippsland Gazette, and is a reminder of what a rich area this onc...

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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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