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, October 10, 2023

Batty's Island and Thomas Batty (c. 1802 -1885)

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Batty's Island is an area of land on the northern edge of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp, south-east of Tynong and south-west of Garfield. It was...

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, September 25, 2023

The establishment of the Koo Wee Rup Country Women's Association in 1929

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The Country Women’s Association (CWA) of Victoria was formed on March 12, 1928. The aims of the organisation were to speak and act for the ...

Monday, September 18, 2023

Garfield Country Women's Association: a short history

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This is a short, and by no means complete, history of the Garfield Country Women's Association (CWA), as gleaned through newspaper repo...

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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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