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Charles Grimes explores the Yarra River and dights falls
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John Dight told his flour customers through the newspaper that he was relocating to port phillip
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John Dight constructed the first steam powerd mill in Melbourne.
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John dight constructed a rough weir. A weir is a thing that you put in a river to help it flow better.
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John dight and his family abandoned he mill and stopped flour milling
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ohn Dights property was sold to Edwin Trennery and he sub-divided the land.
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The original mill on the river bank was left unoccupied until this time when flour millers Gillespie, Aitken, and Scott run under the name 'Yarra Falls Roller Flour Mills' and constructed a new mill.
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A new timber structure was built to flow water to the Melbourne flour milling company.
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The land changed owner for the final time before being destroyed in a fire.
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The first reconstruction since the fire
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Melbourne Flour Milling Company bought the land with the new mill.
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A second rebuild took place at dights falls
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The original timber piles at the mill were capped by concrete.
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Melbourme Water realised that the weir was a wall for fish migration. They constrructed a rock fish to allow the fish to swim freely.
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The old fish Barrier was taken down and they replaced it with a newer and much better one.
