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Charles Grimes
Charles Grimes was a Surveyor General located in New South Wales. He is predicted to be the first European to explore the Yarra River. He led and instructed his survey party to Dight Falls,this event occured in the year 1803. -
Settling and Sub Division
Melbourne, Australia eventually became settled down in the year 1835. The land had been sub divided. After a short period of time the land sales were held -
Purchasing of block 88
Block 88 was located in Melbourne, in the year 1839, a man called John Dight had purchased that land. It included 26 acres of land also came with the Yarra River for 481 pounds which is 784 dollars. He bought this at the Port Phillip land sales help in Sydney NSW -
Leaving to Port Philip
A year after purchasing the Yarra River Dight still continued working in the business of flour milling he had a mill in New South Wales around Campbell it was called Ceres. During the start of 1840 he notified his coustemers that he was moving to Port Phillip this was told through the Sydney Herald -
Steam Powered Flour Mill
The very first steam powered flour mill is located in Melbourne and was constructed there also this happened in 1841. Bricks were brought from Tasmania were brought to Dight after her built the water powered mill. This mill was powered by the river. The water flowed through an inlet in order to make sure it was a regulate flow or when the Yarra river levels were running low. -
Selling their business 1864 / 1878
The Dight family soon decided that they wanted to sell their flour milling business this decision was made in 1864. It was sold to a man named Edwin Trennery he subdivide this land, this happened in 1878 -
Original Mill
The original mill was on the river bank it was unoccupied for many years until 1888 but, when flour millers Gillespie, Aitken, and Scott, worked with the name of "Yarra Falls Roller Flour Mills" created and constructed a new mill. -
Mill race rebuild 1891 / 1909
The mill race rebuild happened in the year 1891. They used the bluestone blocks from the Dight families old mill buildings and other sorts of buildings. The mill had changed hands for the last time before they would've destroyed it with fire. -
Documented Reconstruction
In 1918 was the first reconstruction because of the timber that washed away in the waters. The Minister demanaded that they did a rebuild -
Another Rebuild
During the late 1940's there was another rebuild and a distribution of 1.5 tones of rock that they had gotten from an edge of the downstream. -
Heavy Rainfall
On the 24th of December 1967, there was a big rainfall which most of the timber deckings, walings and rock fill had drifted away. If they were not torn apart they were damaged and couldn't be fixed. Throughout the following year the original timber from the deckings were capped by concrete. -
Melbourne water
Melbourne water had recognised that the weir had a barrier that let the fish swim freely around the weir. Fish migration happened in the year 1993. They decided to move the fish that were migrating to the Yarra river. -
The past
The old mill site still reflects the character and history of the place. The old mill is one of the earliest industrial archaeological sites in the start. The weir shows how important of the Yarra to the European Settlement
