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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Friday, January 13, 2023

Motoring trip around the Koo Wee Rup Swamp in 1929

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Take a motoring trip around the Koo Wee Rup Swamp in 1929. From The Herald, July 18, 1929, see here . Herald Tourist Bureau Circuit of Koo...

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Road names at Cora Lynn, Vervale, Iona and catani

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The Pakenham Gazette of December 21, 1976 had this article about road names - the issue is that roads had a change of name when they cross...

Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Road between Bayles and Cora Lynn

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I came across this article, in a report from a Shire of Berwick meeting, about the 'new' road between Bayles and Cora Lynn in the D...

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

The Western Port Road

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The Western Port Road started at Dandenong and traversed the old Shire of Cranbourne from Cranbourne to Tooradin to Tobin Yallock (the origi...

Thursday, September 3, 2015

100 years ago this week - Dalmore Roads

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100 years ago this week comes this report from the Lang Lang Guardian of September 8, 1915 about Dalmore ratepayers prepared to pay extra ...

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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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