Nimmitabel, New South Wales Totally Explained

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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. At the 2001 census, Nimmitabel had a population of 238.
   The town is 37 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.

History

Timeline

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

Trivia

Part of the movie, The Sundowners was filmed in Nimmitabel in 1959.The daughter of a local grazier also trained the ducks for the film "Babe"

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