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, January 24, 2021

What happened in Koo Wee Rup in 1921

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This is a look back 100 years at what happened in Koo Wee Rup and surrounds in 1921. In 1921, the Koo Wee Rup Bush nurse was in the news. Nu...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

The case of the poisoned apple pie sent from the Garfield Post Office

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The town of  Garfield featured in news in 1921, because of an attempted murder, which began with a parcel sent from the Garfield Post Office...
Friday, December 11, 2020

The Lang Lang Guardian and the Koo Wee Rup Sun

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Dr Niel Gunson, in his book The Good Country: Cranbourne Shire   (1) wrote this about local newspapers -  The changes in the local press sy...
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...
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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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