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 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...

Monday, February 27, 2023

Tynong Mechanics' Institute

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The earliest public building in Tynong was the Mechanics’ Institute and this post looks at the history of this Hall and the other one (or wa...

Friday, February 24, 2023

Tynong - a short history

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Tynong is a town on the edge of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp in West Gippsland. The area was opened up in the 1870s for farming and timber, which w...

Friday, December 17, 2021

Tynong Grove planted in honour of local Great War soldiers

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A grove 'to honour the men who had gone from the district to the Great War' was planted at the Tynong State School to celebrate Arb...

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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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