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, November 24, 2020

Change of road names in Catani and Yannathan

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The Koo Wee Rup Sun of January 16, 1979 published this notification of the re-naming of roads - South Yannathan Road between O'Sheas Ro...

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Towns named Garfield

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This is nothing to do with the history of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp, but I wrote this for the Garfield Spectator so I thought I would put it u...

Monday, November 2, 2020

Cora Lynn 1907

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The Cora Lynn State School, No. 3502, opened in January 1907 as Koo Wee Rup Central. It was renamed Cora Lynn in July 1907 when the Progress...

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Koo Wee Rup Village Settlement

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The Illustrated Australian News of November 8, 1894 published these photos of the Koo Wee Rup Village Settlement. The Village settlement w...

Friday, October 16, 2020

Life in a Village Settlement on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp

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This account of life on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp appeared in the Mudgee Guardian of January 31, 1907. I believe it is somewhat exaggerated, ho...

Friday, September 18, 2020

Potatoes for health and beauty

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I grew up on a potato farm at Cora Lynn, so I naturally have a fondness for the vegetable. Potatoes are grown worldwide, they are nutritious...

Sunday, August 23, 2020

James Rouse selects land on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp

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In July 1903 my great grandfather, James Rouse, took up 60 acres at Lot 29, Section N, Parish of Koo Wee Rup East. It was on Sinclair Road ...

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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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