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.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

100 years ago this week - an escaped 'lunatic'

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This is an account of the capture of an escaped patient from Mont Park Mental Hospital from the South Bourke and Mornington Journal of Apr...

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

The E.S. & A / ANZ Bank at Garfield

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One of the prominent buildings in Main Street of Garfield is the old ANZ Bank building. The bank was built as an E.S. & A. bank and is o...

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Garfield Rifle club and other local Rifle clubs

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The first Rifle Club was established in Victoria as early as 1860 and two years later the Club was holding inter-colonial matches against Ne...

The Rouse family buys a car

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The first car ever purchased by the Rouse family of Murray Road, Cora Lynn was an Austin A40 ute from Brenchley’s garage in Garfield. This w...

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Cora Lynn Telephone Exchange

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From the Koo-Wee-Rup Sun of June 16, 1954 comes this report about the extended opening hours of the Cora Lynn telephone exchange. No doubt...

Thursday, March 20, 2014

A festival in Koo Wee Rup to celebrate the Coronation in June 1953

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These are photographs from the Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society collection and show the street parade, which took place on June 2, 1953...

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Garfield Picture Theatre

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The Garfield Picture Theatre opened with a Grand Ball on Monday, December 22 1924. An advertisement in the Pakenham Gazette advertised the ...

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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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