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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