Dights Falls

By joshu17

  • The first European explored Yarra River

    Chales Grimes was the first european to explore the Yarra river

  • Melbourne was settlred

    Land sales were held.

  • Melbourne land purchased

    John Dight purchased Melbourne block of land along the Yarra River.

  • The flour mill

    Dight made a business of flour milliing.

  • The first steam povered mill

    Dights bult his flour mill that was in the Yarra River

  • Flour milling abandoned

    Dights family abandoned the flour mill

  • Dights falls bourght

    Edwin Trenney bought the property

  • New flour mill

    Gillespie, Aitken and scott made a flour mill in the property and named it Yarra falls Roller Flour Mills.

  • Enterprise sold

    The enterprise was sold to the Melbourne Flour Milling Company

  • The mill destroyed

    The mill was destroyed by fire

  • River rebult

    The Minister of Public Works decaled the weir would be rebuilt

  • distribution of rock

    breach during this time led them to cuild and place 1.5 tonnes of rock from the edge of the weir downstream.

  • breach of weir

    breach occurred after a heavy downfall during this year

  • melbourne water

    it was observed that the weir acted as a barrier to fish migration made a rock fishway to give the fish to move around

  • Dights falls fish ways