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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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Letters to Aunt Patsy in the Advocate newspaper

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The Advocate was Catholic newspaper which reported on and promoted Catholic interests. It was published from 1868 until 1990. The paper had...

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Saturday, February 8, 2020

Round About Iona 1922

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The Advocate of November 16, 1922 had a special pictorial coverage of Iona, see it here . This is the article, I have reproduced e...

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

The 1910s - a spiritual decade for Iona

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The 1910s was a very spiritual decade for the small township of Iona (or Bunyip South as it was originally called) as two churches were buil...

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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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