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, February 23, 2022

Italian Prisoner of War Camp at Koo Wee Rup

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The Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society has copies of Commonwealth Government Hirings Service documents relating to the World War Two Ital...

Monday, February 21, 2022

Tooradin - a short history

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This is a short history of Tooradin and the Sherwood Hotel, which was located near the corner of the South Gippsland Highway and Tooradin...

Tooradin State School Honour Roll

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The Tooradin State School Honor Board is displayed at the Fishermans Cottage Museum, on the foreshore at Tooradin. The Museum is operated by...

Friday, February 11, 2022

Dipping sheep on Quail Island, Western Port in 1866 by James H. Watson

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On June 20, 1927, James H. Watson (1) , the President of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Sydney presented a paper to the Historical...

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Shires of Berwick and Cranbourne - a timeline of their history

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This is a time line of local government in this area - 1842 - The Town of Melbourne created - the first local government body in Victoria....

Monday, January 24, 2022

World War One Soldiers and a Nurse with connections to French Island

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French Island is not part of any Local Government area, nor is it part of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp, but you can see it from the Swamp, so that ...

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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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