Casey Cardinia - links to our past

This blog covers the post contact history of people, places, organizations and events in the City of Casey and Cardinia Shire. Everyone has a story, every thing has a story and this blog tells and shares these stories.

Monday, 19 April 2021

400th post!

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This is our 400th post! The first post was on November 5, 2007 - thirteen and a half years ago. In that time so much has happened in the wor...

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Monday, 12 April 2021

Geranium harvesting and 'ten acres of drugs' at Westerfield, Baxter

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I came across these photos from 1929 of germanuim harvesting at Westerfield , at Baxter. Westerfield was a property owned by Russell Grimwad...

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Friday, 19 March 2021

Meteor sightings in the Casey Cardinia area

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This region is world famous for the Cranbourne Meteorites which were unearthed between 1853 and 2008. I have written about them here . I ha...

Monday, 15 March 2021

Koalas at Yannathan

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In the last post, which was about a report of a trip taken from Berwick to Yannathan in 1887 (see here ), the unnamed writer of the report s...

Wednesday, 10 March 2021

A trip to Yannathan - 1887

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This interesting article of a trip from Berwick to Yannathan is from 1887. The route taken was the Berwick-Clyde Road, the South Gippsland ...

Thursday, 25 February 2021

Progress of Pearcedale - hindered by bad roads - 1922

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The Age newspaper of April 5, 1922 (see here ) published an article on Pearcedale, about the vile unmade tracks that masquerade as roads in...

Friday, 19 February 2021

Farming at Berwick - 1876

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This account of farming at Berwick was published in the Melbourne Leader of March 25, 1876 (see here ). It talks about three farmers, James ...

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