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, May 19, 2015

Paying your Rates - 100 years ago

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How to pay your rates 100 years ago. Bunyip Free Press May 20, 1915 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129631341
Sunday, April 19, 2015

100 years ago this week - St Joseph's Convent Iona opened

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St Joseph's Convent Iona opened one hundred years ago, on April 11, 1915.  The Convent housed the Sisters of St Joseph, who established...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Growing up on a dairy farm in the 1940s and 50s.

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Small family dairy farms used to be the predominant farm on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp until the 1970s or so. In the 1920s, for instance, it was ...
Friday, March 6, 2015

100 years ago this week - Cora Lynn Ball

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This report of one of the best balls ever held in Cora Lynn comes from the  Bunyip Free Press of March 11, 1915. The Ball at Cora Lynn B...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Flood photos Koo-Wee-Rup

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These are some photographs of  Koo-Wee-Rup and surrounds in what maybe the 1924 flood or the 1934 flood from the  Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp Historic...
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Country Women's Association - Koo-Wee-Rup Branch 1963

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This is the booklet produced by the Koo-Wee-Rup Branch of the Country Women's Association for 1963. s

Cora Lynn Races - March 28 1932

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Here's the  programme from the Cora Lynn Race meeting held on March 28, 1932.
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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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