A complete guide to Adaminaby, NSW
, 2022-12-08 19:50:46,
December 9, 2022
Lake Eucumbene, the largest of the Snowy Scheme lakes, holds about nine times the volume of water of Sydney Harbour.
Image credit: courtesy Snowy Scheme Museum
The modern version of this town – a magnet for trout fishers – was created in the late 1950s when the previous Adaminaby disappeared beneath the waters of Lake Eucumbene.
Adaminaby is both a historic and modern town. The initial European settlement in that location was a stopover for gold prospectors making their way to the rich goldfields at Kiandra. From 1956 to 1957, when the waters of Lake Eucumbene began rising due to the vast Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme, many of the town’s significant buildings (notably its churches) were moved 8km to Adaminaby’s present site.
Consequently, the modern town and its newer buildings date from the early 1960s. Essentially it’s a carefully planned village, purpose-built to house former residents who’d been displaced by the rising waters of Lake Eucumbene.
It was designed so the main road, the Snowy Mountains Highway, didn’t run through the town. An interesting rectangular retail precinct modelled on a wide…
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