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Owned by the Wurrundjeri People
Dights Falls was an important crossing and meeting place for marrige, trade, despute resolution and other cermonies for the Wurrundjeri People. -
Yarra river was discovered
Yarra river was discovered by Charles Grimes -
John Dight brought land along the Yarra River
He wanted to construct a flour mill using the rivers water -
John Dight build and operate a flour mill.
He built and operated a flour mill, by using the rivers water to power the flour mil.l -
Flour mill abandoned
The Dight family abandoned the Flour mill -
The weir was sold
The property was sold to Edwin Trennery in 1878. Trennery subsequently subdivided the land. -
Sold again
Dights Falls was unoccupied until 1888, it was sold to new owners who rebuilt a new flour -
Dights Falls changed ownership one last time before it was destroyed
Dights Falls changed ownership one last time before it was destroyed in a fire -
The rebuild of the weir
Timber from the weir was washed away in the river, so weir was rebuilt -
New Fishway and Weir Constucted
A new fishway was built and the old weir replaced due to its lack of reliability.
