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.

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Home Deliveries to Cora Lynn in the 1940s and 1950s.

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The Rouse family have had the newspaper delivered to Cora Lynn and Vervale since the end of World War Two. Dad remembers that Mrs Simcocks, ...

Agnes Mickle - Pioneer woman

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Alexander and Agnes Mickle (nee Johnston) arrived in Victoria in October 1857 on the ship, Blackwall. Agnes was 28 and Alexander was 27. The...
Monday, October 21, 2013

100 years ago this week - Iona State School, No. 3201.

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Iona parents were unhappy at the delay in getting a new scholl building, after their School burnt down. This comes from The Argus of Octobe...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

100 years ago this week - Wife wanted

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This was in a couple of newspapers, 100 years ago this week in October 1913. I am not sure if the story is true, or if the lovelorn cheesem...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

Royal Melbourne Agricultural Show 1960

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This is what the Royal Melbourne Agricultural Show used to be like.  My dad, Frank Rouse and my Uncle James Rouse (J. & F. Rouse Potato...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

100 years ago this week - Bunyip Court case

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The following appeared in The Argus of September 16, 1913 (see here )  - 100 years ago. Two farmers of Iona, named Victor Little and Thomas...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Early days of Garfield and Cannibal Creek

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The earliest recorded European settlers in the Garfield region were the lessees of the two Connabul Creek Runs, both leased in 1845. Connabu...
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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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