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 12, 2016

Local Cemeteries

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The Koo Wee Rup Swamp doesn’t have a cemetery, I presume because it was too wet and swampy, so residents of the Swamp would be buried at Cra...

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Garfield 1971

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I came across some old Bunyip & Garfield Express newspapers from the early 1970s and so thought we could take a look at what was happen...

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Koo Wee Rup ANZ / E.S. & A Bank

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Banking in Koo Wee Rup started in 1905 when an agency of the London Bank at Garfield was established in the town. In 1920, the London Bank ...

Sunday, April 3, 2016

Garfield Progress Association

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This post looks at the activities of the Garfield Progress Association (GPA) and its forerunner, the Garfield Progressive Association, mainl...

Monday, January 18, 2016

Bunyip Dramatic Society

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When my father, Frank Rouse, was young - around 17 to 19 years of age - in the early 1950s, he was a member of the Repertory Society or Dra...

Bunyip and the Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp 1887

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This account of the township of Bunyip and the Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp comes from the South Bourke and Mornington Journal of August 3, 1887. Cli...

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Cora Lynn Church

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The Presbyterian Church and the Methodist Church used to hold services at the Cora Lynn Hall from around the 1920s to 1960. Most people at...

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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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