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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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

An Acrostic History of Koo Wee Rup Swamp

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This is an eclectic look at some themes from the history of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp and the first letter of each theme spells a seasonal greet...

Saturday, October 7, 2023

Cyrus Mason - the Buonarotti Club and 'Woodyats', Tynong

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I was going through Trove combining various words with Koo Wee Rup as a search term to see what I could discover and came up with an articl...

Friday, December 31, 2021

George McDonald, Assistant Surveyor, and the Great Swamp

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The Argus of June 12, 1863 published this interesting letter written by George McDonald, Assistant Surveyor, about the Koo Wee Rup and Moe ...

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

A visit to Koo Wee Rup in 1886 - part 1

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In May 1886 The Leader newspaper had a two-part report of a visit to the Koo Wee Rup area. This was before the construction of the Main Dra...

A visit to Koo Wee Rup in 1886 - part 2

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In May 1886 The Leader newspaper had a two-part report of a visit to the Koo Wee Rup area. This was before the construction of the Main Dra...

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Koo Wee Rup Village Settlement

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The Illustrated Australian News of November 8, 1894 published these photos of the Koo Wee Rup Village Settlement. The Village settlement w...

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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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