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, August 22, 2017

Fatal Shooting at Weatherhead's saw mill near Glenlyon

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When Alf Weatherhead was eleven years old, he was involved in a fatal shooting on Easter Saturday, April 6, 1907 at his father's saw mi...

Iona Hotel at Garfield

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This post looks at the history of the original Iona Hotel at Garfield, which opened in 1904 and burnt down in 1914. In June 1903 it was repo...

A trip from Dandenong to Koo-Wee-Rup and Lang Lang by road

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I wrote this article for the Koo-Wee-Rup newsletter, The Blackfish .  It is a companion piece to the one I wrote for the Garfield Spectator...
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How do you spell Koo-Wee-Rup?

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What's the correct way to spell Koo-Wee-Rup?  Any way you want apparently. The article below, a letter to the editor of the Kooweerup S...
Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Mickle, Bakewell and Lyall

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Mickle, Bakewell and Lyall were business partners and were prominent land owners in this area  from the 1850s. They controlled over 20,000 a...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Lubecker Steam Dredge on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp

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The Lubecker Steam Dredge was the first machine used on the long running project to drain the Koo Wee Rup Swamp, which had started with sma...
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Friday, July 14, 2017

Flax Mills at Koo Wee Rup and Dalmore

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In 1940, the British Government asked Australia to produce more flax for the War effort. Britain had previously been supplied with flax from...
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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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