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Owned by the Wurundjeri Balluk people (Pre 1835)
The Wurundjeri Balluk people relied on Dights Fall as a source of fish, water and more. It was also used as a meeting/trading place for different clans. -
John Dight purchases Dight Falls
John Dight uses Dight Falls as a source of power, and builds a flour mill shortly after purchasing it. -
Weir constructed
John Dight constructed the first weir in the river, using stone. He did this to regulate the flow of the river, and keep the water levels at a manageable level. However, this weir was causing problems for the fish in the river, who could no longer swim downstream easily to breed. -
Dight Falls is sold to Edwin Trennery
Trennery subdivided the land. -
Flour millers Gillespie, Aitken and Scott reopened the Dights Fall Flour Mills.
They operated under the name of Yarra Falls Roller Flour Mills and constructed a new mill. -
Mills sold to Melbourne Flour Company
New mills and other buildings were constructed to optimize the production of flour. -
Mill destroyed by fire
The mill changed hands one final time before being destroyed by a fire in 1909. The ruins of the mill are still visible today should you wish to see them. -
First breach of the weir
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. -
Fishway is constructed
Recognising that it was harming the local wildlife, Melbourne water added a fishway through the Weir to allow the fish to pass through the Weir. This greatly helped the wildlife and will continue to benifit them far into the future. Image: Fishway in Construction - The Age
