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.

Sunday, December 28, 2014

100 years ago this week - Granite quarry

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It seems that quarries haven't always been unwelcome in this area - this is a report form the Bunyip Free Press of December 31, 1914. ...
Monday, December 22, 2014

100 years ago this week - strychnine poisoning

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This tragic report was in the South Bourke and Mornington Journal on December 24, 1914.  Sadly for this little girl, strychnine used to be...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Drainage of Bunyip - 100 years ago this week

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Here's an interesting article about drainage (or lack of it ) in Bunyip. The drain went from the Hall, along Main Street to the Railway...
Sunday, November 2, 2014

100 years ago this week - Miss Bell, confectioner, fruiterer and caterer.

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Feeling peckish? Then call in at Miss Bell's shop in Main Street in Bunyip and you can purchase "hot pies, tea, coffee and cocoa a...

100 years ago this week - Patriotic Concert

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Here's an account of a Patriotic Concert held at Koo-Wee-Rup on October 30, 1914.  The school children put on the concert, well trained...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

100 years ago this week - Rabbit Inspector resigns

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A report in the Bunyip Free Press of October 22, 1914 said that Mr Kelleher, the Rabbit Inspector had resigned, Bunyip Free Press Oc...
Friday, October 24, 2014

An overview of the drainage of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp

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This is an overview of the history of the drainage of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp. I must acknowledge   From Swampland to Farmland: a history of t...
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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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