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, August 23, 2020

James Rouse selects land on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp

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In July 1903 my great grandfather, James Rouse, took up 60 acres at Lot 29, Section N, Parish of Koo Wee Rup East. It was on Sinclair Road ...

Sunday, January 8, 2017

George Glover - the father of Annie Rouse

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This is an obituary of George Glover, my great, great grandfather who died January 8, 1887. His daughter Annie (born July 24 1865) married...

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp - early drainage schemes

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We will start this blog off with a brief overview of the drainage works on the Swamp. Small scale efforts to drain the 96,000 acre (40,000...

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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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