Showing posts with label Koo Wee Rup Swamp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Koo Wee Rup Swamp. Show all posts
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...
Friday, October 16, 2020

Life in a Village Settlement on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp

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This account of life on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp appeared in the Mudgee Guardian of January 31, 1907. I believe it is somewhat exaggerated, ho...
Sunday, March 31, 2019

Koo Wee Rup Swamp - where birds and beast gather to elect a King

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This interesting, but sort of weird, story was published in the Weekly Times of January 12, 1895. It is called False Friends and True and ...
Friday, March 8, 2019

Lyre birds and Koalas on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp

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This interesting article about fauna on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp in 1894 - 1895 - when there were still koalas and lyre birds. It comes from a ...
Thursday, February 28, 2019

Life on the Swamp in the early days - from newspaper reports

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In 1893, the Koo Wee Rup Swamp was opened for settlement and this created some interest in the newspapers. In fact, a report in the Warragul...