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, September 8, 2023

Koalas at Yannathan and on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp

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This post looks at references to koalas at Yannathan and more broadly on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp. In May 1891, Cyrus Mason wrote a letter t...

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Application for a Hotel in Bayles

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The Age of December 12, 1930 published the following advertisement of a notice of application for a v ictualler's licence at Bayles, f...

Sunday, August 13, 2023

Tooradin Mechanics' Institute and Free Library

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The Tooradin Mechanics' Institute was opened on Boxing Day in 1882. Local Historian, David Mickle (1) , recorded the establishment of th...

Sunday, July 23, 2023

Royal Hotel Koo Wee Rup - the McNamara, the O'Brien and the Daniher families

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The Royal Hotel in Koo Wee Rup was built by Denis McNamara, who had been issued a victualler’s licence at a hearing at the Wonthaggi Licensi...

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Pub crawl in 1918 leads to licensing prosecutions at the Bunyip Police Court

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The Bunyip and Garfield Express of October 4, 1918 had this following interesting account of a pub crawl by four lads - Frederick Sippo, H...

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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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