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.

Monday, November 26, 2012

100 years ago this week - Railways and Monomeith Railway Station

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This appeared in The Argus , on November 26, 1912, 100 years ago this week. It has both a Railway connection (one of my historical interest...
Friday, November 16, 2012

100 years ago this week - Motor Club Hotel Cranbourne

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100 years ago this advertisement appeared in the South Bourke and Mornington Journal of November 21, 1912 for the Motor Club Hotel (more c...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

Frank and Alf Weatherhead

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In honour of Remembrance Day, I am posting photographs of my two Great Uncles who served in the First World War. They are the sons of Horat...
Thursday, November 8, 2012

100 years ago this week - Koo-Wee-Rup rains and a Health report

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From the South Bourke and Mornington Journal of November 14, 1912. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66181744 This is interesting for a...
Monday, November 5, 2012

Horatio and Eleanor Weatherhead

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I was looking through the South Bourke and Mornington Journal, on Trove  http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper  and came across this reference ...
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Swamp wedding

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 It is 90 years since my grandparents, Eva Eleanor Weatherhead and Joseph Albert Rouse married at the Methodist Church in Garfield on Nov...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

100 years ago this week - Place names and railways

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What was happening in the area 100 years ago this week? These are  two railway related articles and are from the South Bourke & Morning...
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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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