Nimmitabel, New South Wales
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Nimmitabel (postcode: 2631) is a small town in the Monaro region in southeast New South Wales, Australia, in the Cooma-Monaro Shire Local government area. It has a population of approximately 300 people.
The town is 38 kilometres south of Cooma and 75 km west of Bega. Nimmitabel is located on the highway which from Cooma to about 10 km south of Nimmitabel is both the Snowy Mountains Highway (HWY 23) and the Monaro Highway (HWY 18).
It is on the southern end of the Great Dividing Range, at the west of the Monaro Range, and lies 20 km east of the Wadbilliga National Park.
Nimmitabel means "the place where many waters start and divide" in the local Aboriginal language. Many various spellings were adopted for the town, including: Nimmitybelle, Nimithybale, Nimitybell, Nimity Belle and Nimmitabel.
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[edit] History
[edit] Timeline
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- 1840 Locals started calling the village Nimoitebool
- 1845 Appears on Townsend's map as Nimmitabel
- 1858 Church was built
- 1857 Renewal of license for hotel
- 1858 Post office arrives
- 1861 Bell's Store
- 1863 Separate Courthouse built
- 1865 Geldmacher builds windmill
- 1866 Cameron's Store opens
- 1912 Railroad arrives
- 1921 Area's first saw-mill opens
[edit] Trivia
Part of the movie, The Sundowners was filmed in Nimmitabel in 1959.
[edit] External links
- Aerial photo of Nimmitabel from Terraserver
- Information about Nimmitabel, including history and photos
- Some history from Peter Goed, particular focus on the 1950s
- Article: "The Day the Stars Came to Nimmitabel..The Making of the Sundowners" by Peter Goed @ Cooma-Monaro website (includes photos from the making of the film in 1959)
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