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.

Saturday, July 24, 2021

Floods and fires in the 1920s and 1930s

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The 1920s and 1930s were a time of floods for Koo Wee Rup with major floods in October 1923, August 1924, December 1934, April /May 1935 and...

Monday, June 7, 2021

Yallock Outfall Scheme Completed - an article by W.T. Griffiths

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The Yallock Outfall Scheme and the construction of the Spillway at Cora Lynn were the last major engineering works undertaken on the drainag...

Saturday, May 29, 2021

Rythdale - the origin of the name

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Rythdale is a locality towards the western end of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp. It is a small pocket of land bordered on three sides by Pakenham So...

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Koo Wee Rup Electric Light & Power Company

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The Koo Wee Rup Sun of Thursday, July 21, 1927 reported that one of the outstanding events in the history of Kooweerup took place last Thu...

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Petrol tanker goes up in flames at Vervale - 1967

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This dramatic truck fire occured in early February 1967. The J-Model Bedford was delivering fuel to Aub Goodman's farm on Pitt Road in V...

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About Me

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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