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, December 23, 2024

What happened in Garfield in 1925

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This is a look at what happened in Garfield and surrounds 100 years ago in 1925. January 1925 - the year started with this tragic incident ...

Monday, January 1, 2024

What happened in Garfield in 1924

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This is a look at what happened in Garfield and surrounds, 100 years ago, in 1924, as reported in the newspapers. The first issue of The Age...

Monday, September 18, 2023

Garfield Country Women's Association: a short history

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This is a short, and by no means complete, history of the Garfield Country Women's Association (CWA), as gleaned through newspaper repo...

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....

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...

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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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