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Dights Falls

By april_b
  • Charles Grimes

    Charles Grimes

    Charles Grimes was the first European to explore the Yarra River
  • Melbourne's settling

    Melbourne's settling

    Everyone settled into Melbourne
  • John Dight

    John Dight

    John Dight of Campbell town explored the Yarra.
  • John Dight's Business

    John Dight's Business

    John Dight created the first mill, that was made of bricks.
  • Dight's first stem-powered mill

    Dight's first stem-powered mill

    John Dight created the first STEM-powered mill
  • The changing ownership of Dights Mill

    The changing ownership of Dights Mill

    The ownership of the site was passed to John Dight and his brother, Charles Hilton Dight
  • The family abandoned flour milling

    The family abandoned flour milling

    The family abandoned flour milling and the mill was leased to Thomas Kenny
  • Edwin Trennery

    Edwin Trennery

    The family sold the mill to Edwin Trennery and he subdivided the land.
  • Mill left alone

    Mill left alone

    The original mill was left alone until 1888
  • Period: to

    Maintenance and Construction of the weir at the falls

    The founding Act of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works was established and was issued a license by the board for construction and maintenance of the weir at the falls
  • Rebuilding the Mill

    Rebuilding the Mill

    Three flour millers, Gillespie, Aitken and Scott built a new mill and associated them on the site.
  • The selling of the Mills

    The selling of the Mills

    A mill race was built using the bricks from John Dight's mill, then was sold to the Melbourne Flour Milling company run by Hon. James Bell
  • Changing hands again

    Changing hands again

    The Melbourne Flour Milling Co sold it's mill and plant on the banks of the Yarra at Abbotsford to Messrs John Darling and Son. John Darling and Son are well known millers and wheat traders of South Australia
  • A glimpse in the past

    A glimpse in the past

    A new fishway was built

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