Dights Falls history

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  • Survey of the area

    Charles Grimes the deputy surveyor-general of New South Wales was sent to melbourne to survey the area

  • First River crossing

    Also to make the first crossing near here with the cattle by the first overlanders John Gardiner, Joseph Hawdon and Captain John Hepburn in December 1836.

  • Purchase of Land

    in 1839 John Dight purchased a large Melbourne block of land,which included 26 acres of land along the yarra river for 481 pounds. at the Port Phillips sales in Sydney
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    First Artifical Weir Built

    in the 1840's aweir was built on the natural bar of basalt rocks to provide water to the flour mill next to the riverAlso in the 1840's John Dights built the first powered flour mills by water

  • First Steam Powered flour mill

    the fisrst steam powered flour mill was constructed using the water from the yarra to create steam

  • Yarra Falls Roller Mills

    A water-turbine powered mill which was the largest of the thirty two water powered mills built in Victoria before 1900