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.

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Saturday, October 12, 2024

David and Sarah Ann Cole of Bayles

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The Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society receives queries on a regular basis and a recent one was from a chap from Adelaide, who visited our...

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...

Monday, December 5, 2022

Bayles Football Club - a poem

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The Koo Wee Rup Sun of May 14, 1925 published this poem by Master A. Murdoch about the players of the Bayles Football Club. I am guessing t...

Thursday, December 30, 2021

Koo Wee Rup to Strzelecki Railway line

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The railway line which used to run from Koo Wee Rup to Strzelecki opened officially on June 29, 1922. At the time it was known as the Koo We...

Thursday, December 9, 2021

Frederick Bayles (1884-1915)

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The area where the town of Bayles is now located was originally known as Yallock, however when the Strzelecki Railway line was opened in Ju...

Sunday, May 28, 2017

Back-to Bayles, February 25, 1967

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The Koo Wee Rup Sun of March 1, 1967 had a full report on the ‘Back-to’ Bayles held 50 years ago. It is transcribed below. Captio...

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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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