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Charles Grimes led his party on an expedition to Dights Falls, reporting it was a bad place to live in.
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John Dight bought 26 acres of land along the Yarra River for £481
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Dight was already in the business of flour milling and had a mill in New South Wales called ‘Ceres’. He told his customers through The Sydney Herald that he was leaving to go to Port Phillip.
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The first steam powered flour mill was made in Melbourne. Dight built his water powered mill, soon after, from bricks. He used the river to power his mill: Water flowed upstream to turn a water wheel. Dight also constructed a stone weir.
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Flour millers Gillespie, Aitken and Scott, or ‘Yarra Falls Roller Flour Mills’ made a new mill and buildings at the site.
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The mill race was rebuilt and was sold to the Melbourne Flour Milling Company.
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The mill changed owners then it was destroyed by fire. The mill race and ruins of the mill can still be found at Dights Falls today.
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Heavy rainfall washes away or damages most of the timber decking, walling and rock fill.
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The timber piles were concreted over, replacing the timber deck and resulting in the weir structure that we see today.
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Melbourne Water constructed a rock fishway to allow fish to move around the weir, noticing the weir was a barrier to fish migration.
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