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The Dight's family mill and land along the Yarra River changed hands a number of times in the mid to late 1800's.
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Charles Grimes, Surveyor General of New South Wales, is believed to be the first European to explore the Yarra river.
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Land was sub-divided and the first public land sales were held shortly after.
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John Dight purchased Melbourne block 88 which included 26 acres of land along Yarra River.
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John Dight notified his customers through the Sydney Herald that he was leaving to go to Port Phillip.
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was constructed in Melbourne, Dight built his water powered mill soon after, from bricks bought over from Tasmania.
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The Dight family abandoning flour milling in 1864
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The property was sold to Edwin Trennery in 1878 and subsequently subdivided the land.
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The existing weir at Dights Falls dates back to 1895 when a timber structure was built to provide water to the Melbourne Flour Milling Company (MFMC).
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Weir has been repaired a number of times in it's 100 year history and the structure we see today is a combination of materials added over time.
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The first documented reconstruction activity occurred i n1918 when part of the timber weir washed away in flood waters.
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A breach of the weir on 24 December 1940 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 in 1967, most of the timber decking, walings and rock fill had washed away or were irreparably damaged during this flood.
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In 1993 Melbourne water, recognising that the weir was a barrier to fish migration constructed a rock fishway to allow fish to move around the weir.