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John Dight of Campbell Town bought portion 88, Parish of Jika Jika, County of Bourke. Over a time period of a few years he built a brick mill (a small brick house) on the property and began making the flour.
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In November 1843, ownership of the land passed to John Dight and his brother Charles Hilton Dight.
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In 1864, the flour milling use was abandoned and the mill leased to Thomas Kenny.
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In the mid 1870s, the property was used by the Patent Safety Blasting Powder Co.
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The Dight family sold the mill site to Edwin Trennery in 1878 and afterwards subdivided the land.
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The original mill on the river bank remained empty until 1888, when flour millers Gillespie, Aitken and Scott, operating under the name of 'Yarra Falls Roller Flour Mills' built a new mill and associated buildings on the site. The mill race was remade in much the same position on the site using bluestone blocks from Dight's old mill building, and a new mill and associated buildings were constructed some distance from the site of the original mill building.
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In 1890, the founding Act of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works was established
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This enterprise was sold in 1891 to the Melbourne Flour Milling Company, run by the Hon.
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The Board issued a licence to the company in 1895 for the construction and maintenance of the weir at the Falls.