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Charles Grimes, a Surveyor General of New South Wales was the first European to explore the Yarra River.
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Melbourne was first settled and the land was sub-divided.
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John Dight purchased Melbourne block 88, which was 26 acres and £481.
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John Dight notified his flour customers through the local newspaper that he was relocating to Port Phillip.
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John Dight just constructed the first steam powered mill in Melbourne.
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John Dight constructed a rough weir.
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John Dight and the Dight family abandoned and stopped flour milling.
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The 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' constructed a new mill.
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Melbourne Flour Milling Company bought the land with the new mill.
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A new timber structure was built to provide 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 occurred at Dights Falls.
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In 1940, there was another rebuild at Dights Falls.
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The original temper piles at the mill were capped by concrete.
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Melbourne Water realised that the weir was a barrier for fish migration. They constructed a rock fish way to allow fish to move around.
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In 2012, a new Fishway was built to update the old Fishway.
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Here is a map of Dights Falls 2014.
