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, June 28, 2015

100 years ago this week - Potatoes

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100 years ago this week, The Australasian , in the Country Gleanings column reported on the good potato season on the Swamp. The Aust...

Sunday, June 7, 2015

The beginnings of the Royal Hotel, Koo-Wee-Rup

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The January 8, 1915 issue of the Powlett Express reported on the hearing at the Wonthaggi Licensing Court held on December 18, 1914. Ther...

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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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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