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Nixon's Mill, Mount Barker [B 11361] • Photograph

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Summary

View of Nixon's Mill, Windmill Hill, Mount Barker. The area developed as a milling centre in the 1840's. Frederick R Nixon's wind-powered mill was completed in 1842. This mill was located on the brow of a hill overlooking the road between Hahndorf and Mount Barker. Nixon's Millground over half a million bushels of wheat in one season. Milling ceased in 1864 as it could no longer compete with steam mills. Frederick Robert Nixon(1817-1860) was an artist, draughtsman and surveyor. He arrived in South Australia in 1838 to take up his appointment with Colonel William Light's team of surveyors. In 1839 he was in charge of one of the teams surveying 15,000 acres in the Mount Barker District

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Physical description

Photograph; 20.7 cm x 15.1 cm

Dates / Publication details

1893

Collection

Part of Mount Barker Collection

Subject

Windmills -- South Australia -- Mount Barker

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Date

20/10/2006

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,250 x 2,933 pixels (6.6 MP)

Size

19.83 MB

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