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The changing ownership of Dight's Mill
The Dight's Mill and land along the Yarra River changed hands a number of times in the mid to late 1800s. -
European Settlement
In 1803 Charles Grimes (Surveyor General of NSW) is the first European to explore the Yarra River and he led his survey party on a river expedition. Then unfavourably on the prospects of settling there. -
European Settlement
Melbourne was evenly settled in 1835. Land was sub divided and the first public land sales were held shortly. -
The first weir at dights falls
John Dight purchased a Melbourne block 88, which included 96 acres of land among Yarra River for £481 in 1839 in Sydney. -
The first weir at Dights falls
In April 1840 Dight notified his customers through the Sydney Herald that he was leaving to go to Port Phillip, even though he was already in business of flour milling and had a mile CampBell town in NSW called 'Ceres'. -
The changing of Dight's Mill
In 1864 the Dight family abandoned the flour milling and sold the property to Edwin Trennery in 1878. -
The changing ownership of Dight's Mill
The original mill on the river bank was abandoned until 1888, when flour millers Gillespie, Aitken and Scott came they constructed new building at the site. -
The changing ownership of Dight's Mill
The Mill race was rebuild with the same bluestone blocks from Dight's old mill building and there were some other building and a new mill that was build along the process. This enterprise was sold in 1891 to the Melbourne Flour Milling Company. -
The history of the weir as we know it
The existing weir which was build to produce water to the Melbourne Flour Milling Company, dates go back to 1895 -
The changing ownership of Dight's Mill
In 1909 the mill was destroyed by fire but before that it was changed for the final time. The race and ruins of the mill can still be found at Dight's Falls today. -
Breaches and repairs - the changing face of Dight's Falls
In 1918 the reconstruction activity occurred when the timber weir washed away in flood water and the Minister for Public Works declared that the weir would be rebuilt, although the extent of these works is not known. -
Breaches and repairs - the changing face of Dight's Falls
A rupture of the weir on 24 December 1940 provoked another reconstruct and the circulation of 1.5 tons of shake from the edge of the weir downstream. -
Breaches and repairs - the changing face of Dight's falls
During 1967 there occurred a heavy rainfall. It destroyed most of the timber decking, wailing and rock fill and gave irreparably damaged during this flood. -
Breaches and Repairs - the changing face of Dight's Falls
In 1993 Melbourne Water, perceiving that the weir was a boundary to angle relocation built a stone fish approach to enable fish to move around the weir. While consider best practice at the time the stone fish way was just halfway powerful and the Dights Falls weir keeps on going about as a noteworthy boundary to local fish relocation in the Yarra stream .
