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.

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

The 1910s - a spiritual decade for Iona

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The 1910s was a very spiritual decade for the small township of Iona (or Bunyip South as it was originally called) as two churches were buil...
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Sunday, June 17, 2018

Divorces in the 'olden days'

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 The Divorce Court proceedings were reported in much detail in the newspapers in the past, and this was because one party had to prove the o...

Early Swamp Schools

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The first school on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp was School No. 2629 which had opened on November 1, 1884 on the corner of Bethunes Road and the Ko...
Friday, December 22, 2017

A short history of Bunyip

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I wrote this for the 35th birthday of the  Bunyip & District Community News , and it was published in the October 2017 edition. The...
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Koo Wee Rup Water Tower

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As early as 1918 there was agitation for a water supply scheme in Koo Wee Rup and this issue came up periodically with the Koo Wee Rup Progr...

The Western Port Road

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The Western Port Road started at Dandenong and traversed the old Shire of Cranbourne from Cranbourne to Tooradin to Tobin Yallock (the orig...

An Acrostic History of Koo-Wee-Rup

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This is an eclectic look at some themes from Koo Wee Rup's  history and the first letter of each theme spells a seasonal greeting!  I di...
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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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