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.

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Flood photos Koo-Wee-Rup

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These are some photographs of  Koo-Wee-Rup and surrounds in what maybe the 1924 flood or the 1934 flood from the  Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp Historic...
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Country Women's Association - Koo-Wee-Rup Branch 1963

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This is the booklet produced by the Koo-Wee-Rup Branch of the Country Women's Association for 1963. s

Cora Lynn Races - March 28 1932

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Here's the  programme from the Cora Lynn Race meeting held on March 28, 1932.
Sunday, December 28, 2014

100 years ago this week - Granite quarry

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It seems that quarries haven't always been unwelcome in this area - this is a report form the Bunyip Free Press of December 31, 1914. ...
Monday, December 22, 2014

100 years ago this week - strychnine poisoning

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This tragic report was in the South Bourke and Mornington Journal on December 24, 1914.  Sadly for this little girl, strychnine used to be...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Drainage of Bunyip - 100 years ago this week

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Here's an interesting article about drainage (or lack of it ) in Bunyip. The drain went from the Hall, along Main Street to the Railway...
Sunday, November 2, 2014

100 years ago this week - Miss Bell, confectioner, fruiterer and caterer.

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Feeling peckish? Then call in at Miss Bell's shop in Main Street in Bunyip and you can purchase "hot pies, tea, coffee and cocoa a...
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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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