nimmitabel

"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
    

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...

I'd like to be able to place it for you but there are actually two Brown's Mountains that I know of, in N.S.W. One is NW of Nowra; the other NW of Bega, being the route of the Snowy Mountains Highway from the coast to the high country.

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163798459# - this pic appeared in the Sydney Mail on 2nd October, 1897 ...accompanying an article on Nimmitabel, near Cooma, in Southern NSW.