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Howells' Mill Parramatta, 1849

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Howells' Mill Parramatta, 1849

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Windmills of Sydney

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Industrial building Mills and windmills Wheat

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Wickham, G

State Library of New South Wales

Windmills of Sydney

In the late eighteenth century, and well into the nineteenth century, the tallest structures around Sydney Cove were windmills. They left few physical remains, yet their presence left a lasting legacy in early colonial landscape art and the minds and hearts of many contemporaries.

Industrial building

Wheat

Mills and windmills