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The Old Windmill, Nimitybelle

from Powerhouse Museum

• Pixel Wrangler said:

  "This image depicts Geldmacher's Mill [in] Nimmitabel. Nimmitabel is a small rural [village], located south of Cooma in New South Wales."[1]
  
  The windmill was built in 1865. Also known as Nimity Belle. About 1840 the locals started calling the village Nimoitebool. On Townsends map in 1845 as Nimmitabel.[2]  Also Nimmitybelle, Nimithybale and Nimitybell. Nimmitabel means, "the place where many waters start and divide".[3]
  
  "This old flour mill (1865-72) was built almost single-handedly by a German settler named John Geldmacher who also owned a store and other town allotments. He initially fitted sails but these were not permitted so close to a road where they tended to frighten horses. Thus he used horses to drive the mill which was not a great success. It was later a timber mill and is one of two such mills left in eastern Australia."[4]
  
  Geldmacher's Mill – Then and Now (100+ years later)
  
  "Old Windmill - 2008"    by Kincuri   |   "Old Windmill, c. 1900" by Kerry
      

• covid convict said:

  trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/164340808/16759785 - this pic appeared in the Sydney Mail on 20th July, 1910...in an article titled 'Old Mills of New South Wales'...this is the first publication that I've found so far...