Old Adaminaby is located about 5 minutes drive from Adaminaby and is now a lakeside holiday village built around the few remaining buildings that were not relocated during the construction of the mighty Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme in the early 1950s. Entire houses, and even the Commercial Bank Building were transported on the back of trucks and over 100 buildings were re-erected at the new townsite, which is the current Adaminaby township as we know it today. Transportation of the first house from Old Adaminaby to New Adaminaby (a distance of just six miles) took six days!

The buildings were relocated before the valley was flooded to form the beautiful Lake Eucumbene, the largest lake in the Snowy Hyrdo Scheme being some 9 times the size of Sydney harbour, not to mention home to some wonderful specimens of Rainbow Trout.