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.

Friday, August 12, 2022

The Circus comes to Koo Wee Rup - October 1952

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Two different circus shows came to Koo Wee Rup in October 1952 - Bullen Bros & Hagens on Friday, October 3 and Wirth's on Saturday, ...

Monday, August 1, 2022

Wattles on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp

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It is wattle time on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp. I believe the local species is the Black Wattle ( acacia mearnsii ). It grows anywhere, it line...

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Back-to Garfield June 1962

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It is sixty years since Back-to Garfield celebrations took place. This Back-to was held from June 1 to June 4 in 1962 and all the proceeds f...

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Grosby Slipper Factory at Koo Wee Rup

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The Grosby Shoe Company purchase the old flax mill at Koo Wee Rup. Koo Wee Rup Sun December 3, 1947 p. 1 In December 1947, the Koo Wee Ru...

Saturday, July 9, 2022

The Rossiter family of Koo Wee Rup

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Rossiter Road is named after Charles Rossiter. Charles and Ellen Rossiter took up 317 acres of land at Yallock in 1873 (1) and named the pr...

St George's Anglican Church in Koo Wee Rup

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This was the original design for St George's Anglican Church in Koo Wee Rup. The tower was never built and doors were added to the fron...

Friday, July 1, 2022

Plowright Brothers sand mining operation

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The photographs, below, of the Plowright Brothers sand mining operation on the Main Drain just out of Koo Wee Rup are from the Koo Wee Rup S...

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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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