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, November 20, 2023

Koo Wee Rup North State School flooded

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The Koo Wee Rup North State School, No. 3198, opened on July 7, 1894. It was located on the corner of Five Mile Road and Main Drain Road. ...

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Great War Soldiers with a connection to Koo Wee Rup North

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This report on the Five Mile School Honor Roll was in the Lang Lang Guardian of June 9, 1915. Five Mile, also known as Koo Wee Rup North, wa...

Sunday, June 17, 2018

Early Swamp Schools

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The first school on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp was School No. 2629 which had opened on November 1, 1884 on the corner of Bethunes Road and the Ko...

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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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