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, July 18, 2026

A letter from Egypt from Charles Ware of Yallock

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The Lang Lang Guardian of March 15, 1916 published the following letter from Charles Ware of Yallock. Soldier's Letter The following are...
Thursday, July 16, 2026

Right sort of Colonist - Kenneth Fyffe of Bunyip

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Kenneth Thompson Grant Fyffe (SN 6798A), a farm labourer from Bunyip, enlisted in the A.I.F., on September 3, 1917 at the age of 21 in the 2...
Saturday, June 27, 2026

General Sir John Monash remembered at Lang Lang

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On May 7, 1936 the Koo Wee Rup Sun published the following report - At the Lang Lang State School the Monash Memorial Committee presented th...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Picnics on the Yallock Creek

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I have found these two accounts of picnics on the Yallock Creek from 1914 and 1915, it is likely that many more picnics took place on the ba...
Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Cr Jeune Matthews - first female Shire President

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I have written about Miss Beatrice Thomas, the first female Shire Secretary of the Shire of Berwick (see here ). Another pioneering woman in...
Monday, June 1, 2026

Shire of Cranbourne Certificate presented to Edwin Spencer Johnson

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This certificate is from the Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society collection and was presented to Edwin Spencer Johnson by the Shire of Cran...
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Avenue of Honour at Tooradin

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The Tooradin Avenue of Honour, runs along the South Gippsland Highway. The original planting of 42 trees went from Evans Road to the bridge ...
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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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