WHAT'S IN ITS NAME? MILLER'S POINT Sydney NSW, Australia. 1949

The Sunday Herald (Sydney, NSW : 1949 - 1953), Sunday 13 February 1949.

MILLER'S POINT
WHEN Sydney was young, a windmill stood on the headland at the north-eastern  corner of Darling Harbour.
The windmill marked the site of one of the colony's first flour mills. The mill was owned and occupied by a celebrity of the early times, known as Jack the Miller.
"Jack" was a jovial, though somewhat frugal, man whose real name was John Leighton.
Even before his death in 1826, at the age of 56,   legends had grown up about  Jack the Miller.
One story was that the  Governor offered him the  whole of the Point that now  is named for him, if he would build a fence to divide the point from the mainland. Jack thought it would be too expensive a way of getting the land—and so he lost it.
E. OAKES

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