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Dight falls was owned by the Wurrundjeri people
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Charles Grimes led his survey party on a river expedition to the Yarra Falls area
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Melbourne is settled
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John Dight purchased Melbourne block 88, which included 26 acres of land along the Yarra River
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John Dight notified his customers from his flour mill in New South Wales, through The Sydney Herald that he was leaving to go to Port Phillip.
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The first steam powered four mill was constructed in Melbourne in 1841. Dight built his water powered mill, soon after, from bricks bought over from Tasmania.
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The Dight Family abandoned flour milling
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The property was sold to Edwin Trennery
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The mill race was rebuilt in much the same position using bluestone blocks from Dight’s old mill building, and a new mill and associated buildings were constructed. This enterprise was sold to the Melbourne Flour Milling Company.
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A timber structure was built to provide water to the Melbourne Flour Milling Company.
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The first documented reconstruction activity occurred when part of the timber weir washed away in flood waters.
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A breach of the weir prompted another rebuild and the distribution of 1.5 tonnes of rock from the edge of the weir downstream.
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A further breach of the weir occurred after heavy rainfall. Most of the timber decking, walling and rock fill had washed away or were irreparably damaged during this flood.
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The original timber piles were capped by concrete, replacing the timber deck and resulting in the weir structure that we see today.
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Melbourne Water, recognising that the weir was a barrier to fish migration constructed a rock fishway to allow fish to move around the weir
